India violated airspace: BD

Published July 30, 2005

DHAKA: Three Indian jets on Friday allegedly violated Bangladesh’s airspace and entered 12 kilometres inside Patgram frontier in the northern district of Lalmonirhat, a Bangladeshi official said on Friday. Reports reaching here said that the Indian jets intruded into Bangladesh territory and staged demonstration for 3-4 minutes before returning.

Sources in the Bangladesh Rifles, paramilitary border guards of Bangladesh, believe that the jets returned to the adjacent Cooch Behar district of India’s West Bengal province.

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