04-17-2005, 11:42 AM
<b>Indo-Bangladesh talks end amid border clash</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Four people were killed in an exchange of fire between Indian and Bangladeshi border troops while their top officials were wrapping up a meeting in Dhaka, security officials said on Sunday.
The casualties from Saturday's gunbattle along Bangladesh's eastern Akhaura border involved "people from both sides of the frontier", one official said without giving details.
Late on Saturday, the chiefs of India's Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) concluded a five-day meeting in Dhaka without any agreement on ending disputes over India fencing the border.
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Bangladesh does not oppose the Indian fencing project, but objects when the fence is erected too close to the zero line.
"We cannot accept fencing within 150 yards (metres) from the zero line," said BDR chief Major-General Jahangir Alam Chowdhury.
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<b>Sixteen Indian and three Bangladeshi soldiers were killed in 2001 in the bloodiest border clash</b>
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This is serious.
The casualties from Saturday's gunbattle along Bangladesh's eastern Akhaura border involved "people from both sides of the frontier", one official said without giving details.
Late on Saturday, the chiefs of India's Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) concluded a five-day meeting in Dhaka without any agreement on ending disputes over India fencing the border.
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Bangladesh does not oppose the Indian fencing project, but objects when the fence is erected too close to the zero line.
"We cannot accept fencing within 150 yards (metres) from the zero line," said BDR chief Major-General Jahangir Alam Chowdhury.
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<b>Sixteen Indian and three Bangladeshi soldiers were killed in 2001 in the bloodiest border clash</b>
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This is serious.