'Abducted villagers kept in Bangladesh'

Agartala, July 9 (bdnews24.com) ? Police chief of the India's northeastern state of Tripura has said six tribal men kidnapped by the banned NLFT militants from a bordering village in South Tripura district have been kept across the border in Bangladesh.

"They are across the border; we know that they are very close to the BDR camp. We have given all the details where they are kept and requested the BSF to hold a flag meeting the Bangladesh Border Guards, so that this point could be raised and necessary action taken," said Director General of Tripura police K Salim Ali.

He was speaking to media persons during a press conference in the police headquarters here.

On July 1, some NLFT militants had kidnapped six tribals ? five Reangs and one Chakma ? from a remote South Tripura village. The militants sneaked into India from Bangladesh to carry out the abduction.

Ali added, "Taking advantage of the absence of border fencing over an eight-kilometre stretch on the India-Bangladesh border in the Raishyabari area under Nutanbazar police station, the militants kidnapped and took the tribal people across the border."

However, the DGP assured that very soon the entire border that Tripura shares whith Bangladesh would be fenced. Initiative had also been taken to illuminate it, so that BSF men could manage it better, he added.

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