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No-man's land people 'vanish' into the blue

STAR REPoRT
A group of 213 people stranded in the no-man's land for a week disappeared mysteriously in the early hours of yesterday, as New Delhi and Dhaka bickered over push-in of Bangla-speaking people.
Delhi said that the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) had accepted the people, many of them gypsies, a claim flatly denied by Dhaka.
With the disappearance of the people across Nazir Gomani of Lalmonirhat district, the tension reduced. But both the BDR and the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) were on high alert.
The BSF continued assembling people along the border to push them into Bangladesh.
Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan will soon fly to New Delhi to meet his counterpart Yashwant Sinha over the Indian move to deport the so-called "illegal immigrants". They talked over telephone Wednesday night to resolve the
issue.
The BDR may sit with the BSF in Coochbehar this morning to ease the border tension.
Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani said Bangladesh has taken back its nationals, thus defusing an "immediate crisis" that had threatened to snowball into a major row, AFP reported.
"However, the problem of illegal immigration remains which needs to be resolved," he was quoted by the Press Trust of India.
Foreign Secretary Shamser Mobin Chowdhury however denied the claim and said Bangladesh did not receive them.
"We don't know where these (stranded) people have gone," said Chowdhury during a regular briefing here.
Shamser repeated that India does not have any illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
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BSF Inspector General KC Sharma told The Times of India that the BDR took back the stranded people at around 2:00am.
"We wanted the BDR to accept them in the presence of the media but just to save their face the BDR took them back in the middle of the night," Sharma told Times.
"It's impossible," retorted BDR Sector Commander Colonel Enayet Karim.
Lt. Col. Ashfaqul Islam, commanding officer of 19 battalion BDR, said the BSF took back the stranded people at around 3:30am.
Wazed, a teen-aged villager, said he saw the people being shifted to somewhere in Satgachhia village in India by trucks. Villagers are also on vigil to thwart any more push-ins.
The simmering border confrontation follows a statement by Advani last month that some 20 million "illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and Pakistan" would be deported.
Within weeks, India started pushing Bangla-speaking Muslims into Bangladesh. Dhaka responded by pushing them back.