Growing attacks on troopers at border: BSF

Staff Correspondent:Indian Border Security Force Director General KK Sharma today uttered concerns over the �rising attacks on border troopers� at Bangladesh border.

As a reason, he pointed at BSF�s strategy to �use non-lethal weapons� at the border while addressing during the five-day press of the two border guards in Dhaka.

�Our troops used non-lethal weapons along the borders only for their self-defence,� he said.

BGB Director General Maj Gen Abul Hossain in the briefing said: �Both BGB and BSF earlier took decisions to probe the border killings in order to halt it. But we don�t have the authority to do so.�

So this year we will identify the spots along the border areas where the killings occurred and later on we will take next steps in this regard,� he said.