Agartala: Three unidentified Bangladeshi cattle lifters were hacked to death, while two Indian villagers sustained injuries in a clash between the two sides in a border village in Tripura’s Khowai district on Wednesday, officials said.

A senior police official said that two Indian villagers from the Bidyabil area under the Champahowar police station in Khowai district had gone to work in a rubber garden near the India-Bangladesh border.

The duo noticed three Bangladeshi men hiding in the rubber garden, and when challenged, the cattle lifters turned aggressive and attacked them with daos (sharp-edged weapons), injuring both.

The two injured Indians returned to the village and informed others. Some villagers then rushed to the border area, detained the three Bangladeshis after a clash, a

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