Friday, Jun 12th: According to Baaghi TV Sources, one person was killed and two others were injured in a firing incident on the Indo-Nepal border in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district.
Speaking to the BBC, Sitamarhi Police SP Anil Kumar confirmed the incident and said that the Sonbarsa area of Sitamarhi was attacked by India in Janki Nagar and the Narainpur area of Nepal on Friday from 8:30 am to 9:30 am. Meanwhile, a firing incident has taken place.
“One person was killed and two others were injured in a shootout between the local population of India and the Nepal Police,” he said. The injured are being treated and both are out of danger. However, he did not elaborate on the cause of the clash.
According to reports from Nepal, the administration says that the Nepali security forces opened fire when some Indian nationals tried to enter Nepal illegally. Shankar Hari Acharya, a senior official of Saptari district, said that these were smugglers who came first in small numbers and then in large numbers.
However, Nageshwar Rai, father of the deceased Vikesh Rai, told local media that five or six people had gone to work on a field near the border in the morning. Nepali police forbade him to work. Nepal Police then opened fire in which my son Vikesh Rai was shot in the chest and died. Nepal Police fired 16 or 17 shots.
Sunil Kumar Pinto, MP from Sitamarhi, spoke on the relationship between Nepal and India. Calling for a daughter’s relationship, he appealed to all to maintain peace.
He told BBC Hindi that the border was sealed off due to the coronavirus. Two families visited New Mainland on Friday morning. One of them was a Nepali family of Indian origin and the other was Indian. While the two women were talking to each other, the Nepali police started chasing them away. The men of the family present there forbade the police to do so, which led to a light scuffle and Nepali police opened fire. There are also reports that one of them was taken away by Nepali police. Now the top officials of both the countries have reached there.
“According to the Nepal Police, Indian nationals tried to snatch weapons from them,” Gyanmarjan, a local journalist from Sitamarhi, told the BBC. According to the rest of the information we are receiving, five Indian nationals were shot dead, one of whom was identified as Vikesh alias Vikas.
According to Gyan Ranjan, the incident took place in Nepal. He said there had been some tension during the lockdown but no major incidents had taken place.