Moshfiqur Sunamganj Correspondent: A patrol team of the Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB), led by Subedar Md. Mostafa Kamal of the Laurgarh BOP under the Sunamganj Battalion (28 BGB), conducted a patrol approximately 500 yards inside Bangladesh from the zero line of the border in the Jadukata River.

During the patrol, the team seized around 20 cubic feet of sand, six engine-powered wooden boats equipped with sand-extracting excavator machines (known locally as “save machines”), three additional engine-powered wooden boats, and one barkee boat—making a total of ten boats. These were seized for illegally extracting sand from a non-leased area of the Jadukata-1 sand quarry.

The operation was carried out around 1:00 a.m. on Sunday night.

Confirming the seizure, Lieutenant Colonel A.K.M. Zakaria Kadir, Commanding Officer of the Sunamganj Battalion (28 BGB), said that the confiscated excavator machine, boats, and other materials are in the process of being handed over to the Customs Office in Sunamganj. He added that, in addition to safeguarding important border points like the Laurgarh BOP, its members remain strictly vigilant—day and night—to prevent illegal sand extraction.