The unit has completed these anti-tunneling trenches — 4 feet wide and 10 feet heavy — on a information totalling 25 km, and are apt to decorativeness enactment connected a cumulative 8-km agelong wrong the adjacent 2 months.
Following past year’s surge successful militant attacks successful Jammu, the Border Security Force (BSF) has been digging trenches on sections of the International Border (IB) successful the portion successful an effort to observe cross-border tunnels.
The past clip the unit detected specified an infiltration passageway was successful 2022, said an authoritative successful the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). The caller trench operations travel aft aggregate strategy meetings held successful North Block implicit the bid of attacks past twelvemonth successful formerly peaceful parts of Jammu.
The authoritative said the BSF identified borderline stretches totalling 33 km successful Jammu, Samba and Kathua astir 2 months earlier the Assembly predetermination successful Jammu and Kashmir.
The unit has completed these anti-tunneling trenches — 4 feet wide and 10 feet heavy — on a information totalling 25 km, and are apt to decorativeness enactment connected a cumulative 8-km agelong wrong the adjacent 2 months.
“The Army, successful adjacent synergy with the constabulary and the Central Armed Police Forces, were asked to motorboat coordinated operations successful the susceptible regions, particularly successful the dense forests. In 1 of the meetings, the BSF was asked to hint the infiltration constituent successful Jammu,” said the official.
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