BSF returns body of Bangladeshi farmer

India’s Border Security Force (BSF) returned the body of Al Amin, 32, a Bangladeshi farmer shot dead at the Kasba border in Brahmanbaria, to Bangladesh authority.

The BSF handed over the body around 5:30 pm on Saturday (March 1), following a battalion-level flag meeting between the border guards of both countries.

The meeting took place near Pillar 2050 at the Putia border in Kasba upazila.

Lt Col Ziaur Rahman, commander of the 60th Battalion of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Ajit Kumar, company commander of the 49th Battalion of the BSF jointly led the meeting.

Around 7:30pm on February 28, Al Amin was shot by BSF personnel while he was near the barbed wire at the Putia border. He was subsequently taken to an Indian hospital where he was admitted around 9pm.

According to his relatives, Al Amin was shot while attempting to retrieve his cow, which had crossed the border into India.