Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members last night arrested 16 Bangladeshis while they were illegally entering the country from India through the Dhanyakhola border in Jashore's Benapole.

Jashore-49 BGB Battalion Commander Lt Colonel Saifullah Siddiqui said that the arrestees intruded India illegally through the Satkhira border on March 21, hoping for employment.

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When they returned to Bangladesh through the Dhanyakhola border illegally through a broker, BGB members of the Dhanyakhola camp arrested them, the official said.

Of them, there are eleven men, four women and one child.

He also said that a case was filed on the charge of illegal entry, and they were handed over to Benapole Port Police Station.