Indian and Bangladeshi border guards negotiated a cease-fire on Saturday, halting a gunbattle that flared over disputed construction work along the frontier, an Indian official said. The firefight began on Friday after Indian troops shot at hundreds of Bangladeshi workers and soldiers to stop the construction of a river embankment close to the border's zero line.
That gunbattle lasted for hours before ceasing in the evening only to flare again on Saturday morning. "I received a call from the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters in Dhaka this morning and they offered to hold a sector commander-level flag meeting," S.K. Mitra, deputy inspector-general of India's Border Security Force (BSF), told Reuters.
"The meeting could be held tomorrow. Until then no firing will take place without provocation." Friday's fighting began as Indian troops opened fire after Bangladesh ignored a request to stop disputed construction work on their side of the border, along a river that flows into Bangladeshi territory from India, another BSF officer said.
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