After 18 Killed, Border Village Is Returned
From Times Wire Reports
India said it regained control of a frontier village from Bangladeshi forces, a day after clashes on the tense border left 18 combatants dead.
V.K. Gaur, inspector general of India’s border forces, said Indian troops occupied Bangladeshi trenches near Pyrdiwah village in Meghalaya state without firing a shot.
A spokesman for Bangladesh’s Foreign Office confirmed that the nation withdrew its troops. A Bangladeshi soldier was killed in exchanges after the withdrawal.
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