United News of Bangladesh

Indian nationals allegedly entered Bangladeshi territory illegally and abducted a Bangladeshi youth near Patgram border in Lalmonirhat on Friday. The victim, Ajinur Rahman, son of Nur Hossain from Ward No. 1 of Jamgram village, was reportedly tied to a barbed-wire fence and tortured before being handed over to India’s Border Security Force (BSF). Company Commander Rafiqul Islam of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) at the Thyangjhara camp said Ajinur had been wandering near the border when Indian civilians detained him and turned him over to the BSF. BSF hands over body of Bangladeshi youth shot near Hatibandha border According to local sources, Ajinur’s family had been working in a maize field adjacent to the border when 8–10 residents from India's 108 Chhotokuchlibari area illegally crossed over and forcibly took him. They allegedly abused him physically after tying him to the barbed-wire fence. BSF personnel from Saraswati Camp later arrived and took him into custody. "A flag meeting is being pursued to secure the return of the youth," BGB official Rafiqul Islam said.

A 26-year-old woman and her six-year-old daughter were crushed to death on rail tracks in Lalmonirhat's Patgram Friday morning, police said. Also, the accident left her two-year-old son critically injured. The dead were identified as Sumi Begum and her daughter Tasmira Tabassum Tasin from Dhabalsuti Rahmanpur village of Patgram. A Burimari land port-bound train ran them over as they were crossing the Burimari-Patgram railway tracks in the Ghunti area around 10am, Omar Faruk, officer-in-charge of Patgram Police Station, said. "The mother and her daughter died on the spot." Read more: 4 crushed under train in Gazipur;10 hurt The bodies were sent to the district's Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsies, Faruk said. Sumi's son is now undergoing treatment at the hospital, he added.