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Foreign Secretary Chokila Iyer summoned Bangladesh High Commissioner Mostafa Farooque Mohammed to the Foreign Office and conveyed New Delhi's concern over the brutality inflicted on the BSF men.
Earlier, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee took a 'serious view' of the mutilation of bodies of 15 BSF soldiers killed in border skirmishes, a PMO spokesman said.
Vajpayee spoke on Saturday morning to Home Minister L K Advani who is away in Ahmedabad and also to BSF Director General Gurbachan Jagat in Shillong, the spokesman said.
The prime minister asked Jagat to rush back to Delhi with all the facts about the border clashes and report to him.
Reports from the border spoke of some of the BSF personnel having been lynched by a Bangladeshi mob while some others were shot dead by BDR personnel.
India accepted the bodies of the BSF soldiers after a flag meeting between BSF and BDR commanders at Kamalpur in Bangladesh held on Friday night after an earlier meeting at Kakrepara on the Indian side had failed to resolve the issue.
"Almost all the bodies brought by BDR were mutilated beyond recognition. We have now accepted them," a senior BSF officer had said after Indian authorities had refused to accept them initially.
Jagat, who flew to the border areas for an on-the-spot inquiry, was present at the check post when the bodies were brought. They were handed over without the weapons carried by the killed soldiers.
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