Shawdesh Desk:

A Bangladeshi youth has been killed by gunfire allegedly from Indian Khasia community in Dumdumia border area in Bichnakandi of Gowainghat Upazila in Sylhet.

The deceased has been identified as Sabuj Mia, 20, son of Abul Mia, a resident of village Phitorgul Pahartoli in Gowainghat.

According to local sources, the body of Sabuj Mia was found lying inside the Indian border about 200 yards from pillar number 1261 of the Damdamia border.

Later, local people informed the BGB and police.

Gowainghat Police Station officer-in-charge Sarkar Tofail Ahmed said that Sabuj Mia’s father Abul Hossain filed a general diary with the police station.

Police could not recover the body as it was inside India, he added.

Earlier on Thursday, another teenager from Sylhet was shot dead by Indian Khasias while attempting to cross the border illegally into India.