The BSF Saturday detected one more cross-border tunnel close to the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district. This was the second tunnel present in Kathua district within the final 10 days.
The newest tunnel, in accordance with BSF officers, is round 150 m lengthy and 30 ft deep. Unlike beforehand found tunnels, although, it has a diameter considerably bigger than 3 ft. Officials stated the tunnel opened up contained in the barbed wire fence between BSF border posts 14 and 15—an space reverse to Pakistan’s Abhiyal Dogra and Kingre-de-Kothe outposts in Shakargarh district. This is identical space the place BSF shot down a drone carrying arms and ammunition in June 2020 and foiled an infiltration bid in November 2019.
The use of cross-border tunnels to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir is a typical phenomenon. According to BSF, ten cross-border tunnels have been detected in Jammu area within the final six months—4 of them in Samba and Kathua districts.
The earlier tunnel was discovered on January 13. It opened up 20-30 m contained in the barbed wire fence at Bobbiyan in Kathua’s Hiranagar sector.
In November, the border power had discovered a tunnel in Samba district’s Regal space via which 4 closely armed Jaish-e-Mohammad militants had entered the Union Territory. They had been later killed by police and safety forces at Ban Toll Plaza close to Nagrota on the Jammu-Srinagar nationwide freeway.
On Thursday, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha had chaired a gathering of Unified Headquarters and reviewed the safety state of affairs with prime officers of the police, military and different safety forces.
