Shillong, Aug 9
In a midnight daring attempt, some Bangladeshi armed men reportedly attacked villagers after illegally entering Indian territory in Meghalaya’s South West Khasi Hills district, officials said on Saturday.
A senior official of Meghalaya police said that during the intervening night of Friday, eight to nine armed Bangladesh nationals entered Rongdongai village and fired at the villagers and assaulted an Indian villager.
The Indian villager was stabbed after he detained a Bangladeshi national. All the Bangladeshi attackers were forced to flee the area after other villagers chased them.
Police suspect that the Bangladesh intruders might have crossed through these porous areas by swimming water bodies or using underground culverts.
Meanwhile, on August 7, early morning, eight suspected Bangladeshi nationals entered a stone quarry at Bagli, also in the same South West Khasi Hills district.
Police immediately launched a search operation after receiving information, but the intruder managed to escape.