Tension mounted in Sharifpur border in Kulaura upazila as BSF made a fresh bid Tuesday morning to raise barbed wire fence on the no man's land near pillar No 1862 adjacent to Sharifpur immigration check post.

BDR immediately resisted the move.

A scheduled flag meeting there on the day was not held and construction of the Monu river embankment on Bangladesh side was postponed due to lack of security.

BDR sources at Sharifpur border outpost (BOP) said that at an earlier flag meeting held on April 28, BSF had agreed not to raise any barbed wire on the no man's land. But after five days of the meeting, BSF started the work.

BSF has increased its strength on the border, the sources said.

If the situation deteriorates further they will ask local people to shift to safer places, they said.