BSF returns body of BD child

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Nilphamari Correspondent :Border Security Force (BSF) of India at Singpara camp in Kunchbihar district handed over dead body of a Bangladeshi girl child to local Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel posted at Thanarhaat camp in Dimla upazila of the district at 6.00 PM on Friday.Before this, a flag meeting was held between the BGB and the BSF near international border at Thengjhara Charkharibari village, a shoal of Testa river in the upazila. Earlier, BSF recovered the dead body from a maize field at Singpara village on Wednesday and handed over it to their police of Kuchlibari thana for post mortem at Kunchbihar district hospital in West Bengal.Police of Dimla and locals informed that the victim Yesmin Ara (9) was the daughter of day labourer Yasin Ali alias Refatullah of a cluster village in Purbo Satnai union of the same upazila near the border. He was also a student of class three of Dakkhin Jharsingheswar Govt Primary School.However, Officer in Charge of Dimla Police Station Ruhul Amin Khan, who was present in the handover venue, informed quoting Indian postmortem report that the girl was killed by suffocation.He, however, said that the Indian authority could not confirm whether she was raped before being killed, as her lower part was severely decomposed.Locals reported that the girl was abducted by miscreants while playing beside her house with other girls in the afternoon of Sunday.As other girls returned home that day before evening, her parents made announcement through loudspeaker for trace of the girl. Locals also informed the matter to Thanarhat BGB camp that night BGB sent message to BSF to keep watchful eyes if the girl was taken there after abduction.

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