Shillong: The Bangladesh Border Guard yesterday assured Border Security Force (BSF) of full cooperation to arrest the militants involved in killing to its guards on Friday, officials said.
“The BGB (Border Guard Bangladesh) has assured full cooperation to our series of requests,” a senior BSF official told PTI.
The guards manning either side of the Indo-Bangladesh border met at the Ketakona border outpost in Bagli area, the remote border outpost which came under attack on Friday. Col K Bashar, Sylhet Sector Commander, represented the BGB while the BSF was represented by B D Sharma, Additional Director General, along with the IG Meghalaya Frontier.
The BGB has also assured in apprehending all the Bangladesh-based militants who aided in attacking the outpost and subsequent killing of the BSF guards, the official said. The BSF handed a list of six wanted criminals along with their photographs and addresses to the BGB for their immediate arrest and charging them against the attack on November 8, he said.
Suspected tribal militants killed two BSF guards at a remote border outpost in South West Khasi Hills. The attack was seen as a retaliatory one on the BSF who seized huge arms consignments the previous night in South Garo Hills.
A 9 mm carbine machine, one 7.65 mm Italian-make Barreta pistol, one China-make 7.65 mm pistol, all with ammunition, wireless set with signal booster, two mobile phones, sports shoes and other items were seized from the Angratoli reserve forest in the district, BSF officials said. The attack came within 48 hours of militants ambushing a police vehicle in neighbouring South Garo Hills district killing five policemen on board.
Meghalaya shares a 443-km border with Bangladesh, part of which is still not fenced.
These unfenced pockets are the prime areas for infiltrators in the form of illegal immigrants, smugglers and militants.
