DHAKA, Aug 30: Three people were killed and at least nine injured on Tuesday when Indian Border Security Force (BSF) opened fire on innocent Bangladeshis on eastern Brahmanbaria and northern Thakurgaon frontiers, officials said.

The unprovoked firing, which killed two laborourers in Kasba of Brahmanbaria and one farmer in Ranisankoil in Thankurgaon, flared-up fresh tension over the 4000 kilometer-long Indo-Bangla border.

Forces were put on high alert on both the sides of the zero-line.

Officials at the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters in Dhaka said the members of the Border Security Forces hanged the body of the farmer, Afsar Ali, 40, with the barded-wire fence after killing him in the morning.

“It is a brutal act. The BSF men hanged a person after killing him,’ Hasan Sohrawardi, the director (operation) of the Bangladesh Rifles told the press. He said he had information that the Indian guards amassed several hundred Bangla-speaking Indians to push in inside Bangladesh following the firing incident.

The BSF did not hand over the bodies, a BDR official said, adding that the BSF even turned down a request for a flag meeting on Tuesday.

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