BSF has returned the body of a Bangladeshi cowherd after a flag meeting with BGB at Townsreepur border in Debhata upazila, Satkhira.
Sub-inspector of Debhata police station Mijbah Uddin received Nazrul Islam’s body on Sunday afternoon.
The 40-year-old Nazrul was the son of Sadar Uddin, a resident of Haraddaha village in the upazila.
At the meeting, 34 BGB battalion Commander Lt Col Shamsul Kabir and Z Angam, inspector of Taki BSF camp of the force’s 47 battalion, represented their respective forces.
Officer-in-charge of Debhata police station Ashraf Hossain said Nazrul’s body was handed over to his family.
On Wednesday night, Nazrul went into India by crossing Haraddaha border to bring cows. Two days later on Friday, BSF officials of the Taki camp recovered his body from Ichamati river.
The body was kept at Basirhat morgue in India before the handover on Sunday.
Subedar Sirajul Islam, BGB company commander of Townsreepur, said Nazrul did not die when he went to India to bring cows.
He actually drowned when he went to fish in the river, said Sirajul.