The cross-border underground tunnel was used by terrorists to enter India.
A Border Security Force (BSF) team, investigating the intrusion of four recently killed Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists in Jammu’s Nagrota, entered 200 meters into Pakistan to find the mouth of a cross-border underground tunnel. used by terrorists to enter India, senior officials said Tuesday.
Immediately after the four Jaish terrorists were shot dead in a shootout on November 19, the BSF, which controls the International Border (IB) in the Jammu region, formed a first-rate team to explore the possible route taken by they.
The team followed their structure to unearth the tunnel opening on the Indian side and during the search operation, electronic and geographic data found on a mobile device recovered from the terrorists was also used, officials said.
After detecting the tunnel mouth, the BSF team found itself 200 meters into Pakistani territory, they said, adding that it entered through the tunnel and recorded the images inside it on the Pakistani side as part of collecting evidence, before to return to India. side.
The operation was “a swift and intelligence-based action,” they said.
The four Pakistani terrorists heading to Kashmir were killed in a shootout after the truck they were traveling in was stopped for inspection at a highway toll plaza.
The BSF, in an official statement, had said that its personnel and those of the Jammu and Kashmir police “detected a tunnel originating on the Pakistani side of the international border and exiting on the Indian side in the area of the Regal border post in the Samba district of Jammu. ” .
“It was about 160 meters from the IB, 70 meters from the border fence and at a depth of 25 meters,” he had said.
According to clues obtained after the encounter, BSF had said, it was learned that these terrorists “were picked up by a truck from the village of Jatwal in Samba on the national road.”
The tunnel, he had said, was found in “first light” on November 22 by BSF’s crack team. The exit on the Indian side was in thick bushes carefully hidden and meticulously covered with dirt and wild vegetation.
“The tunnel mouth was reinforced and reinforced with sandbags bearing marks from Karachi, Pakistan,” the border force guarding the front said.
It was a newly dug tunnel and it looks like it is being used for the first time. It appears that adequate engineering effort had been put into digging the tunnel showing the establishment’s hand, the force said.
The closest Pakistani posts are Chak Bhura, Rajab Sahid and Asif Sahid.
“The detection of the tunnel was due to the well-coordinated operation between the BSF, the J&K police and the intelligence agencies,” he said.
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