Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 3: A 30 mt long cross border tunnel starting from the Pak side of the border was detected by BSF jawans on the International Border (IB) in R S Pura sector of Jammu frontier on Thursday.
The tunnel was found 10 feet deep (approx) and 2.5 feet wide, 50 metre ahead of the barbed wire fence.
"We detected a well-constructed tunnel on IB in RS Pura sector of Jammu this morning when our jawans were clearing the thick vegetation in the area," IG BSF, Jammu frontier, Rakesh Sharma said late Thursday evening.
This is the fourth tunnel detected by BSF in the region since 2012.
"We were carrying out our regular clearing operations, done monthly, when we found a well-constructed tunnel," he said, adding that it was being dug out.
"We were suspecting some activities across the border. There were late-night movements. People used to come late in night to the post across the border. The BSF authorities were a worried lot after the tunnel was found as some of the training camps were still active across the border.
According to BSF, the tunnel started from the Pakistani side and was blocked on our side. It was dead end. It had no exit as they could not complete it further. It came close to the border fencing," the officer said.
"One person can sit and easily move inside the tunnel which has come up in the vicinity of Allah-Mai-Di-Kothi BoP of ours from Pakistan Post of Afzal," he said, adding that a probe was on.
Earlier, the BSF had detected a 400-metre long cross-border tunnel along the IB in July 2012 in Samba sector.
In May 2014, it found a caved-in portion of the tunnel in Chillyari border belt in Samba district, which was found 23 metres inside the Indian territory.
Another tunnel was discovered in August 2014, which was approximately 130 to 150 metres in length along the Line of Control (LoC) and originated on the Pakistan side, near a forward post along Indo-Pak border in Jammu region's sensitive Pallanwala sector. |
