2 BSF jawans injured in attack by Bangladeshi villagers along intl border in West Bengal

Kolkata: Two Border Security Force (BSF) jawans were seriously injured and their weapons snatched after more than a hundred Bangladeshi villagers attacked them with sharp-edged weapons in a field along the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal on Sunday, officials said.

"BSF jawans of border outpost Nirmalchar were on duty when they stopped Bangladeshi



farmers from bringing their cattle to the fields of Indian farmers.

"Immediately, more than a hundred villagers and miscreants from Bangladesh entered the Indian side and attacked the jawans with sticks and sharp-edged weapons (Dahs)," a BSF spokesperson for South Bengal frontier headquartered in Kolkata said.