Agartala, May 22 -- Tripura police, with assistance from local villagers, on Thursday detained five Bangladeshi nationals from the Pathariyadar border area under Madhupur Police Station in Sepahijala district of Tripura.

Among the detainees were two women and three men who were later brought to Madhupur Police Station for questioning.

During preliminary interrogation, the individuals admitted to crossing the border with the intention of reaching Delhi for work.

They revealed that a group of Bangladeshi human traffickers had assisted them and brought them to the Indian side through a culvert under a barbed-wire fence near Pathariyadar.

According to the detainees, the traffickers took 15,000 Bangladeshi Taka and a mobile phone from them...