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The last rites of the 15 Border Security Force personnel who were tortured and killed by the Bangladesh Rifles on the Assam-Bangladesh border were performed on Saturday with full state honours.
The bodies of the two Muslim personnel were interred first, while those of 13 Hindu men were cremated in the presence of 118 Battalion Commandant S K Jutsi and other senior officers at the BSF ground in Tura, Meghalaya.
As the bodies were highly mutilated, they were not handed over to the family members who were only informed of the deaths by telegram and telephone, a BSF officer told the Press Trust of India.
The slain BSF men belonged to Punjab, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh.
Earlier, as the bodies arrived at Tura early on Saturday from Mancachar in three trucks, Commandant Jutsi received them with passions running high among the jawans. "The dead were among us and our brothers. How can we remain quiet?" one trooper said.
Deputy Commandant B R Mondal, who was among the dead, was a very popular figure in Mancachar.
PTI
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