India, Feb. 3 -- India's Border Security Force (BSF) on Saturday halted Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) from constructing an "illegal bunker" within 150 meters of the international boundary, marking the second such intervention in two days as border tensions between the neighbours remains high.

BSF officials at Kolkata's Eastern Command said they spotted the construction, initiated Friday night on Bangladesh's side, during a patrol. This follows Friday's intervention when BSF stopped BGB from building a "sentry bunker" in the Dahagram Angarpota area along the North Bengal frontier.

"On February 1, a team of BSF sector Kishanganj observed some fortification work being carried out by Bangladesh nationals along the embankment of Kulik River...