Tribune News Service
Jammu / Srinagar, August 29
The Border Security Force (BSF) today claimed to have detected a tunnel near the India-Pakistan International Border (IB) in the Samba district of Jammu province. This comes on a day when a soldier from the Army’s elite counter-insurgency unit and three local Hizbul Mujahideen militants were killed in a shootout in the Pulwama district of southern Kashmir.
Originally from Pakistan, the cross-border tunnel was detected in a field in the village of Galar. The tunnel opening is about 170 meters from the IB on the Indian side.
IG (Jammu border) NS Jamwal did not rule out the involvement of the Pakistani establishment in the excavation of the tunnel. “After the entrances, special teams were set up and one of them detected the tunnel on Friday,” Jamwal said, adding: “Pakistani-made sandbags were found at the mouth of the tunnel with marks from the Shakargarh and Karachi factories. “.
“The tunnel is about 20 feet deep and 2-3 feet wide,” tweeted BSF Jammu. “With this detection, the alerted BSF troops thwarted Pakistan’s nefarious plan to infiltrate terrorists into Indian territory.
Six unearthed since 2012
- July 28, 2012: Chachwal at Samba
- August 23, 2014 – Chakla area of Akhnoor
- March 3, 2016 – RS Pura sector, Jammu
- February 14, 2017 – Ramgarh Sector, Samba
- September 30: Arnia, Jammu
- August 28, 2020: Galar, Samba
Efforts by Border Security Force alert troops deployed to our multi-level counterinfiltration grid once again resulted in neutralizing the evil designs of terrorists in deep collusion with the Pakistani Rangers, ”said a public relations officer from the BSF:
There have been regular comments about the presence of terrorists in villages along the IB on the Pakistani side, desperately seeking to cross to the Indian side, he added.
Meanwhile, joint teams of the police, the army, and the CRPF cordoned off the village of Zadoora after a report on the presence of militants.
Thwarted terror plan
Alert BSF troops foil a major terrorist plot, an attempt by terrorists to infiltrate the Indian side through a tunnel on the international border at Samba. —BSF Jammu
“While a suspicious house was being searched around 1 am, militants hiding in a stable opened fire and seriously wounded a 50-rifle Rashtriya soldier. The soldier was taken to a medical center where he succumbed to his injuries. In the shooting that followed, a militant was killed. The forces maintained a tight cordon and two other militants were killed this morning, ”said a police officer.
The killed soldier was identified as Sepoy Prashant Sharma, 23, a resident of Khanjapur in UP’s Muzaffarnagar. Prashant had joined the Army’s 26th Mechanized Infantry Battalion in November 2016.
The three murdered militants have been identified as Adil Hafiz, Arshid Ahmad Dar and Rouf Ahmad Mir, all residents of Pulwama. Two of them had joined the militant ranks last week, authorities said.
