Updated: August 29, 2020 4:05:01 pm
The tunnel is 25 feet deep and 150 meters long on the Indian side.
In a breakthrough, the Border Security Force (BSF) on Saturday detected an underground tunnel near the international border in the Bengal area of Samba district in Jammu and Kashmir.
It is 25 feet deep and 150 meters long on the Indian side, official sources said, adding that some sandbags with markings –– ‘Shakkergarh’ and ‘Karachi’, both in Pakistan –– were also found. The closest Pakistani post across the border was nearly 400 meters from the tunnel, they added.
The BSF has launched a major search operation to uncover other hidden structures that aid the infiltration, the sources added.
Also previously, these underground cross-border tunnels were detected in areas along the international border in the Jammu region. In 2012, BSF had detected a 400 meter long tunnel in the Samba sector and another near the Control Line in the Palanwala sector in 2014. The same year, another tunnel was detected in the Chillyari area of Samba. This was excavated almost 25 meters within Indian territory.
In March 2016, a tunnel from the Pakistan side was detected 30 meters into the Indian side in the RS Pura sector and another in the Samba sector in 2017.
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