Two cases have been filed accusing more than one hundred people over the killing of a teenage boy in a clash between BGB members and smugglers in the Indian border area under Kanaighat upazila in Sylhet Monday evening.
Suraighat Border Guard Camp Commander Subedar Surat Ali filed the cases on Tuesday with Kanaighat police station, said OC Nunu Mian.
According to sources, the teenage boy, Siraj Uddin, 13, son of Abdul Mutlib of Sanatan Punji village under Kanaighat upazila, was killed in the clash between BGB men and smugglers.
Local people said a team of Suraighat BGB camp seized a number of smuggled cartons of foreign cigarettes at the village around 7pm.
The clash erupted when a group of local smugglers tried to snatch the seized cigarettes from the BGB men, they said.
Commander Subedar Surat Ali said the smugglers attacked them with sticks and spears and threw stones and brick bats forcing them to open fire that injured ‘one of the smugglers’.
“Three BGB members were also injured in the attack. One of them was sent to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital while the other two were admitted to the local upazila health complex,” the camp commander said.
He, however, could not say about the fate of ‘the injured smuggler’ as the BGB men left the spot after the clash.
Siraj’s father Abdul Mutlib said his son went to the local market in the afternoon and he saw his son’s body lying on the ground when he rushed there in the evening, being informed by the neighbours.
Siraj was buried on Tuesday evening.
