7 held while illegally crossing border

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 7 people, including a human trafficker, at Benapole union under Sarsa Upazila of Jessore on Friday night. Subedar Samsur Rahman of Khulna 23 BGB Batallion said they were trying to illegally cross over to India. The detained trafficker has been identified as Abdul Rashid. The victims are, ‘Robin’, 18, Parvez Alam, 18, Babita Adhikari, 19, and Shiuly Begam, 20. He said a BGB team held picked them up from the Putkhali border point. In another incident, Cox’s Bazar’s Farida Begam, 22, and her infant son Rabiul Hasan were rescued from being trafficked into India. Rashid, a resident of Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya Police Station, has been charged of human trafficking in both the cases, according to bdnews24.com.