Indo-Bangladesh border clashes kill two civilians

Members of India's Border Security Force and the Bangladesh Rifles fired mortars and shelled each other for three hours near Kinor Khal.

Overnight clashes between Indian and Bangladeshi border guards killed two civilians in a frontier village, Indian officials said on Thursday.

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Members of India's Border Security Force and the Bangladesh Rifles fired mortars and shelled each other for nearly three hours near Kinor Khal, a border village in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, said DN Dutt, the state's police chief.

One of the mortars hit a resident's home in Kinor Khal, killing two women there, Dutt said.

It wasn't immediately known if there were any casualties on the Bangladesh side.