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India declined on Friday night to accept from the Bangladesh Rifles 15 bodies purported to be of Border Security Force personnel killed on Wednesday as they were "highly mutilated and beyond recognition", a senior BSF officer said.
"Almost all the bodies brought by the BDR were highly mutilated and beyond recognition. We have not accepted them so far," the officer said.
With night falling as the bodies were handed over at a border check post near Mancachar in Assam, it was not possible to undertake any identification process, the officer said.
The bodies brought by Colonel Sadiqul Islam of 8 Battalion of the BDR were not accompanied either by the weapons carried by the BSF soldiers.
Official sources maintained that the bodies also bore marks of torture and strangulation when they were taken out of the coffins.
The BDR claimed they had included the body of B R Mandal, who was deputy commandant of the 118 Battalion of the BSF deployed in the area.
According to the BDR, two injured BSF personnel are in its custody and being treated at a hospital.
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