Pakistan terror camps hit by coronavirus, Paprika students can die from Covid-19: J&K DGP | News of India



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JAMMU: The terrorist camps in Pakistan and occupied Kashmir have been affected by the coronavirus, and some of its residents are in training in these fields could die of Covid-19 as “no one bothers about them,” J&K Director General of Police, Dilbag Singh, has said.
Citing an intercepted phone-call made by an apprentice of his PoK field of his family in Kashmir, Singh said that there is a fear that the desperate, the terrorists try to infiltrate in Jammu and Kashmir and the spread of the deadly virus in the Valley.
The revelation has come through the intelligence agencies, too, say that Pakistan is pushing terrorists infected with Covid-19 in Kashmir.
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“There are reports that someone from a training camp in Pakistan, where he is being trained, made a call to the members of your family here (Kashmir), saying that some of the students of Kashmir have been infected by the coronavirus,” the DGP told PTI in an interview.
“I would tell them that some of them would die of the coronavirus in the fields of training and no one bothers about them,” he said.
Phone calls which has raised serious concerns that those who crossed the border would try to return by the outbreak in the camps.
“They are infected with the coronavirus, and if you come to this side (Kashmir), who can transmit the infection to other frames. This is a very troubling problem,” he said.
Pakistan has reactivated at least 20 fields of terrorism and the other 20 launch pads along the Line of Control and the increase of its efforts since October of last year to ensure the infiltration of as many terrorists as possible in Jammu and Kashmir.
The camps and the launch pads, with at least 50 terrorists in each one, is reactivated after remaining closed for months after the bombing of a CRPF bus in Pulwama in February of 2019 and the subsequent retaliation to the bombing of terror camps in Balakot by the Indian Air Force.
The DGP said from 250 to 325 terrorists who were waiting in the launchpads to cross over to Jammu and Kashmir, where over 240 terrorists are already operating in indoor areas.
On Wednesday, four associated terrorists of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, were arrested in Budgam district and arms and ammunition were seized from them, police said.
The police chief also said that the burial of the terrorists who have been changed to avoid the crowds due to the coronavirus pandemic. “The bodies of the terrorists are being buried away from the crowds,” he said.
“We don’t want a large number of people gathering unnecessarily. That was a serious violation of Covid-19 (protocols) and, therefore, we have revised our exercises,” he added.

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