BSF kills 2 Pakistani intruders along international border in Punjab

Two Pakistani armed intruders were on Thursday shot de by Border Security Force along International Border in Punjab as force thwarted three bids of drugs smuggling at this front.

In first interception, two men in ir 30s were killed near Rajatal border post in Amritsar around 2:20 am after troops on guard detected suspicious movement ahe of border fence in Indian territory, a BSF spokesperson said.

Border Security Force (BSF) sentry on duty heard some crawling sound near fence. He challenged approaching people in dense fog but he inste heard sound of cocking gun by intruders. BSF jawan fired in self-defense and later we recovered two bodies of armed intruders from spot, BSF Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Bhupinder Singh told reporters in Amritsar.

An AK-56 rifle, semi-automatic rifle, pistol, 90 bullets, five magazines, and two PVC pipes, usually used to push drug packets across border, of about ten feet each, have been seized after a search was conducted of incident site, DIG said.

drugs were found in this spot, he ded.

officer said force is "lodging a protest" with Pakistan Rangers to inform m that intruders were using ir territory to push narcotics on Indian side.

He said two more attempts to smuggle drugs were thwarted in same region, one being near its Ramkot border post, and over 5 kgs of heroin in total were recovered from two different spots along with Amritsar sector.

(IM CREDITS:PTI)