The BSF personnel tried to cut the river embankment at Ballamukha, bordering Feni. Later, BGB and locals chased them and BSF members were forced to flee after firing five rounds. Yesterday, the 4th BGB commander of Feni Lt Col Mohammad Mosharf Hossain confirmed the matter and said that the incident took place in his own Kalikapur of Mirzanagar Union of Parashuram Upazila of the district.
According to the related sources, the city of Bilonia in Tripura state of India was flooded due to the pressure of mountain landslides during this monsoon season. Later, the Indians cut the dam at the mouth of the Ballamukha canal with the help of BSF personnel. Due to this, the water of Ceylonia river in Feni rose and many villages were flooded.
At one stage, BSF members tried hard to cut the embankment in the Bangladesh side. However, they failed in the face of BGB and local residents' obstacles. Due to power outage and lack of network, the matter was not known until now, but after the situation normalized, the matter came to the attention of the media.
It is known that after speaking with several residents of Parashuram, Md Mostafa, Delwar Hossain, Ismail Hossain, on the morning of August 20, the villagers were asked to be careful about the damming of the Ballamukha canal. BSF tried to cut the embankment of the Bangladesh side around 8 pm that day. Indian citizens also came forward to help them.
The BSF fired five rounds of blanks to disperse the Bangladeshi residents occupying the embankment. Later, the members of their Kalikapur BGB camp came forward with the help of the villagers. The Indians could not cut the embankment of the canal in the face of their obstacles. Feni residents including Mirzanagar Union of that upazila have been saved from more suffering due to this flood.
Another elderly resident of Parashuram, Yunus Mia, said that if the dam was cut, more water would have entered Parashuram including Mirzanagar Union. Earlier, during the flood of 1983, Parashuram was also cut due to heavy damage. Naik Rumman Sharif of his Kalikapur BGB camp said, we took a position on the dam with the villagers so that the dam could not be cut in any way.
Lt Col Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain, the captain of 4 BGB in Feni said that the BSF members tried to cut a dam at the zero line of the border in that area. The Bangladeshis prevented it. Later, when the BGB members went, they were forced to move.
Incidentally, there is a dead river in the west-south of Char adjacent to the Muhuri river at Kalikapur in Mirzanagar union of Parshuram upazila. It is known as Ballamukhar Canal. The Ballamukhar Canal starts from Kalikapur itself and joins the Ceylonia River through the villages of Rangamatia, Fakir Khil, North Kautli, Bainya Village, DM Sahebnagar, Melaghar, Mirzanagar, Gadanagar, East Sahebnagar, Kalikrishnanagar.
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