Kolkata, Nov 30 : A Bangladeshi smuggler has been killed after a BSF personnel accidentally opened fire during an attack from the miscreants near Matiari border outpost in West Bengal’s Nadia district, an official statement said.
The incident took place on Saturday afternoon when a jawan of the 32nd battalion noticed some Indian smugglers throwing plastic bundles across the fence and Bangladeshi smugglers collecting those.
The jawan challenged them, following which the Indian smugglers fled but the Bangladeshis, some of whom were on this side of the border, attacked the personnel with sharp weapons, it said.
During the melee, a live round was accidentally discharged and it hit a Bangladeshi smuggler, who collapsed on the ground while the others fled, leaving behind 96 cough syrup bottles, two foreign liquor bottles and a barbed wire cutter.
The injured Bangladeshi smuggler was taken to Krishnaganj Hospital, where doctors declared him dead, the statement said.
His body and the seized items have been handed over to the state police for further legal proceedings and an FIR has been lodged at the local police station. (PTI)
