Pakistani mortar shell recovered near India-Bangladesh borders in Bengal’s Cooch Behar
When one of the construction workers first noticed the shell, he mistook it as some ordinary explosive and panicked.
A 55-year-old Pakistani national, who crossed the International Boundary inadvertently, was handed over to the Pakistan Rangers by the BSF, officials said on Wednesday.
A BSF spokesman said that the troops of Border Out Post Kassowal yesterday arrested Nishar Ahmad Ansari of Nainkot in Pakistan after he crossed the International Boundary inadvertently.
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The Pakistan Rangers were contacted and the Pakistani national was handed over to them last evening on humanitarian grounds, the spokesman said.
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