Feni, May 30 -- Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel and local residents on Thursday night forced Indian Border Security Force (BSF)to abandon an attempt to excavate a canal alongside the Parshuram embankment in Feni's Mirzanagar union.

Lt Col Mosharraf Hossain, commanding officer of the BGB's Feni Battalion, said that BSF had brought excavators and other machinery to the embankment at around 11pm Thursday.

"To remove the water accumulated due to the dam on the Bangladesh side, they have made a thick drain on the Indian side. We protested against it as it falls within 150 yards from the zero line on the Indian side."

This BGB commanding officer said that any construction in the no-man's-land between the two countries is prohibited u...