Several attempts foiled, hundreds assembled across the border

BDR along with the frontier people foiled all the attempts, official sources said here.

Tension is simmering along the whole north-western border as the BSF, with reinforcements, increased its push-in bid. BDR is preparing for a flag meeting with BSF to ease the tension, the sources added.

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The BSF tried to push six Bengali-speaking Indians through the remote Shaljhore border under Bhurungamari upazila in Kurigram district on Monday night.

As BDR personnel and local people resisted, BSF forced the Indians to keep sitting on the zero line for hours. Finally, they took them back Tuesday morning.

Sources said the six were party of a group of 15, split into two groups.

BSF tried to push in another four persons through Bhurungamari border in Kurigram district on Sunday but failed because of a joint resistance, the sources said.

Two other attempts to push in 35 Indians through Jhalongi border in Patgram upazila in Lalmonirhat district were foiled by the BDR and villagers during past couple of days.

In the early hours of Monday, BSF tried to push in 15 Bengali-speaking Indian nationals including women and children through Mohanpur border in Dinajpur district.

Talking to BSS, senior officials of the BDR said several hundred Bengali-speaking Indians, mostly women and children, were assembled by BSF in bordering Indian villages.

They are being shifted from one place to another in the darkness of night to push them into Bangladesh at a convenient time.

The BSF personnel have devised a new tactics of keeping themselves in the second row during push-in bids, placing the victims in the front row and forcing them to enter Bangladesh. Earlier, the BSF men were in the front row with the push in victims.

"We are now on a maximum alert to foil any push-in bid. Villagers are cooperating with us spontaneously", one of the officials said.