AMRITSAR (PUNJAB): Border Security Force (BSF) personnel shot dead two men in the wee hours of Friday while they were trying to illegally cross over to Pakistan near Amritsar. Rs 500 and a watch have been recovered from one of them.
BSF Inspector General (Frontier) Himmat Singh said a patrolling party of BSF spotted some movements in a field near BSF's Mullankot Border Outpost, about 4.5 km north of Attari border, at around 1am on Friday.
BSF jawans challenged them to stop, but they ignored the warning and instead ran towards the fence and one of them even managed to cross it, following which BSF opened fire and shot both of them dead, IG said.
A piece of paper with something written in Bangla language on it has been recovered from them which makes BSF believe that they were Bangladeshi nationals. He said the area around Mullanpur and Ratankhurd had earlier also been active with movement of Bangladeshis.
He said many Bangladeshi nationals often illegally try to cross over to Pakistan in search of work in a Muslim country or to live with their relatives largely settled in and around Karachi.
BSF Inspector General (Frontier) Himmat Singh said a patrolling party of BSF spotted some movements in a field near BSF's Mullankot Border Outpost, about 4.5 km north of Attari border, at around 1am on Friday.
BSF jawans challenged them to stop, but they ignored the warning and instead ran towards the fence and one of them even managed to cross it, following which BSF opened fire and shot both of them dead, IG said.
A piece of paper with something written in Bangla language on it has been recovered from them which makes BSF believe that they were Bangladeshi nationals. He said the area around Mullanpur and Ratankhurd had earlier also been active with movement of Bangladeshis.
He said many Bangladeshi nationals often illegally try to cross over to Pakistan in search of work in a Muslim country or to live with their relatives largely settled in and around Karachi.
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