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Ten Bangladeshi nationals returned to holding centre after border standoff

Siliguri, June 9 (UNI) Ten Bangladeshi nationals, including three children and women, who spent nearly four days and three nights stranded near Berubari on the Indo-Bangladesh border in North Bengal, have been brought back to India and shifted to a holding centre in West Bengal's Cooch Behar district following a repatriation impasse between border authorities of the two countries.
The group had been sheltering in the open near the zero line in the Berubari after efforts to facilitate their return to Bangladesh ran into difficulties.
According to Border Security Force (BSF) sources, the individuals had entered India illegally and were subsequently identified as Bangladeshi nationals. One member of the group claimed they were residents of Kushtia district in Bangladesh and had sought to return home.
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