Two Pakistani intruders shot dead by BSF in Amritsar.
Two Pakistani intruders shot dead by BSF in Amritsar.
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n Thursday, the Border Security Force shot two “armed intruders” from Pakistan along the International Border in Amritsar, Punjab. After the troops on guard detected suspicious movement ahead of the border fence in Indian territory while around 2.20 am, in the first interception, two men in their 30s were killed near the Rajatal village in Amritsar
“BSF sentry on duty heard some crawling sound near the fence. He challenged the approaching people in dense fog but he instead heard the sound of cocking the gun by the intruders. The jawan fired in self defence and later we recovered two bodies of the armed intruders from the spot,” said Bhupinder Singh, BSF Deputy Inspector General (DIG). According to DIG, after a search was conducted no drugs were found but many arms have been seized which include an AK-56 rifle with two magazines, a pistol with two magazines, a semi-automatic Magnum rifle with one magazine, 90 bullets and two PVC pipes of about 10 feet each which are usually used to push drug packets across the border.
DIG Singh claimed that the force is “lodging a protest” with the Pakistan Rangers to inform them that the intruders were using their territory to push narcotics on the Indian Side. He said two more attempts were hindered in the same region to smuggle drugs, one near its Ramkot border post, and recovered more than 5 kg heroin in total from two different spots along the Amritsar sector.
