Five Bangladeshis who entered the country illegally were apprehended by the Border Security Force (BSF) on May 5 and 6.
According to police, on May 5, BSF personnel at the Dawki border outpost in West Jaintia Hills lodged a complaint that, at about 1:30pm, one Bangladeshi national, Oli Ullah, was apprehended for illegally entering Indian territory.
The following day, along the border outpost in Bahadur, South West Garo Hills, at around 8:30pm, BSF personnel apprehended four Bangladeshi nationals – Raju Ahmed (34), Md Nahid Ahmed (35), Md Suman Miah (32) and Md Jahangir Alom (36) from the Nadirchar area.