The Border Security Force Wednesday stated it had found a 150 m-long cross-border tunnel close to the Border with Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district.
BSF Inspector-General (Jammu Frontiers) N S Jamwal stated the tunnel, discovered at Hiranagar sector’s Bobbiyan village on Wednesday morning, had a 3 ft diameter opening and was almost 25-30 ft deep. He stated the tunnel originates in Pakistan and opens almost 20-30 m contained in the barbed wire fence on the Indian facet.
This is the third cross-border tunnel detected by the BSF in Samba and Kathua districts throughout the previous six months. In September, the pressure had discovered a tunnel in Arnia sector. With the newest discovery, a BSF supply claimed that they had foiled a “major terror plot” within the Union Territory.
Jamwal stated the BSF had been searching for the tunnel for fairly a while now and had initiated “anti-tunnelling” operations within the space. The construction gave the impression to be an outdated one as a number of the sandbags utilized in it carry 2016-17 as their manufacturing yr, he stated. These sandbags additionally bear “Pakistani markings”, the I-G added.
Jamwal stated the pressure was investigating attainable infiltration makes an attempt by militants by way of the tunnel, however dominated any latest foray by militants in view of the aforementioned anti-tunnelling measures.
“Our border protection grid involving BSF, army and police were working in coordination with each other all along the border to foil Pakistan’s nefarious designs,” he added.
