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6 Bangladeshis held in Meghalaya

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Press Trust of India Shillong

They were caught by the patrolling border guards, a senior BSF official said.

With this, the total number of Bangladeshis arrested in the sector has gone up to 62 since October last.

All of them were migrant labourers working in coal mines at Nongalbibra area in South Garo Hills, they said.

Meghalaya shares a 443-km border with Bangladesh, part of which is porous with difficult terrain. These unfenced pockets are the prime areas for infiltrators for illegal migrants, smugglers and many a time militants.

  

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First Published: Nov 02 2012 | 7:55 PM IST

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