3 Bangladeshi nationals beaten to death in Assam, India

CNI Desk: Three Bangladeshi nationals alleged to be cattle smugglers were lynched by locals at Karimganj district Os Assam in India around midnight on July 18. Four others from across the border escaped.

Quoting Kumar Sanjit Krishna, the district’s Superintendent of Police, The Hindu said the incident happened at Bogrijan Tea Estate under Patharkandi police station near the 134 Battalion of the Border Security Force’s E Company. The area is close to the border with Bangladesh and about 1.5 km from the nearest police outpost.

The police recovered the bodies of the three men and a process was on to hand them over to the Bangladeshi authorities via the Border Security Force.

 

This was the second such incident in Karimganj district in less than two months.