MISHAP

Senior BSF official killed

 

COOCH BEHAR, Aug. 30: In an unfortunate incident a deputy commandant of Border Security Force was killed at Gitaldaha in Dinhata, Cooch Behar today.

 

BSF sources said the deputy commandant Vijay Bir Singh of 127-battalion went to visit the situation of Indo-Bangladesh border at Gitaldaha today. When he was returning his vehicle skid off into a roadside channel near the Dharala river at about 12-30 noon. The vehicle (Maruti Gypsy) was immediately flown away along the channel by floodwater. Two others in the vehicle, the driver and a constable, came back safely from the water but the vehicle and the deputy commandant went missing.

 

At about 3-30 p.m. the body of Vijay Bir Singh was recovered by the swimmers and locals after a hectic search. The vehicle was also recovered, BSF sources added. []