In the Lalarchak border area of Kulaura, a 14-year-old girl named Swarna Das was killed by gunfire from the Indian Border Security Force (BSF). Two days after the incident, BSF returned the girl's body last evening. Lieutenant Colonel Mizanur Rahman Shikdar, the Sector Commander of BGB's Srimangal Sector, stated that a flag meeting between the company commanders of BSF and BGB was held on Monday afternoon at the Lalarchak border. Further legal action is being taken.
According to local sources, after the girl was killed by BSF's gunfire on Sunday night, her body remained at the Lalarchak border in Sharifpur Union until Monday afternoon, after which BSF took it away. Swarna, a resident of Kalnigor village in West Juri Union, was the daughter of Parendra Das. She was an eighth-grade student at the local Nirod Bihari High School.
Parendra Das and his wife, Sanjita Rani Das, said they have four children. One son has been living in Tripura, India, for a long time. Sanjita, along with her youngest daughter Swarna, attempted to cross into India illegally through the Lalarchak border with the help of two local smugglers to visit her son. A couple from Chittagong was also with them. Around 9 PM, when they reached the barbed wire fence at the Indian border, BSF opened fire indiscriminately, killing Swarna on the spot. The couple with them was also injured. After the gunfire stopped, Sanjita and the others took shelter in a house in Lalarchak village. The injured couple was later sent to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital for treatment.
Swarna's father, Parendra Das, said that on Sunday, Swarna's mother left home with their daughter intending to go to India. On Monday, when he contacted relatives at Swarna's maternal uncle's house in India, he learned that they had not arrived. After searching for them, with the help of an army officer, he rescued Swarna's mother from a smuggler's house in Shamshernagar and brought her home. On Monday, he fully confirmed his daughter's death through BGB.
Source: Manabzamin