BSF firing kills teen at Thakurgaon border
A teenage boy was shot dead by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Kantivita border in Thakurgaon’s Baliadangi upazila early Monday.
The deceased was identified as Jayanta Kumar Shing, 14.
Officer-in-Charge of Baliadangi Police Station Firoz Kabir confirmed the border killing to Views Bangladesh.
The OC said Jayanta’s father Mohadev Kumar Shing, 38, of Fakirvita Belpukur, and Md Darbar Ali, 50, of Nitoldoba village in Baliadangi, were injured in the firing.
The OC said, “Members of Dingapara BSF camp opened fire on a group of people around 3:30am when they were entering India illegally by cutting a barbed-wire fence on the border.”
Jayanta was shot and died on the spot while his father Mohadev Shing and Darbar Ali suffered bullet injuries, the police official said.
The injured were undergoing treatment at a hospital in Rangpur.

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