Date:18/02/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/02/18/stories/2008021854330600.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Eight suspected Bangladeshis held in A.P.

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: Eight suspected Bangladesh nationals were taken into custody by the city police at Secunderabad railway station on Sunday.

They were travelling by the Gorakhpur-Secunderabad-Bangalore Express when the police raided two compartments after the train reached Secunderabad railway station around 4.30 p.m. The Bangladeshis were headed for Bangalore.

“We raided the compartments and took the foreign nationals into custody following a tip-off. We are questioning them on their plans to go to Bangalore,” said a senior police official. The Bangladeshis were said to have earlier worked in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.