A Bangladeshi national was killed and a Border Security Force (BSF) jawan was injured on Friday as the force thwarted a smuggling bid along the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
The incident took place in the early hours of Friday near the Khalpara village in Darjeeling district.<\/p>\n
The BSF spokesperson said a group of 15-20 people from Bangladesh crossed the International Border illegally and entered “well inside” the Indian territory.<\/p>\n
These people were joined by others from the Indian side to smuggle cattle and contraband, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
After a BSF patrol party asked them to surrender, “all the miscreants” attacked with ‘dah’ (a tool similar to a sickle), sticks and also pelted stones, he said.<\/p>\n
The BSF troopers fired non-lethal ammunition to disperse the attackers but they did not relent and tried to “snatch” the weapon of a jawan. “Sensing a threat to his life, the jawan fired from his rifle and the miscreants fled,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
A Bangladeshi man was killed and a BSF jawan was “badly injured”, he said, adding the border fence was found “breached” by Bangladeshi smugglers.<\/p>\n
Two cattle that the men tried to smuggle have been seized, they said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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