Tunnel of terror unearthed in Jammu | India News – Times of India
JAMMU/NEW DELHI: A two-day seek for the infiltration route of the 4 Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists killed in a gunfight with safety forces on the Jammu-Srinagar freeway final Thursday has culminated in the invention of a 150-metre-lengthy cross-border underground tunnel lined with sandbags bearing “Karachi markings”.
The freshly dug tunnel, which begins round 70 metres from the Line of Control (LoC) and is 1.5m vast, lends credence to intelligence studies that Pakistan has been utilizing the underground path to push terrorists into Kashmir.
DGP Dilbag Singh, who had revealed in September that safety forces have been on the lookout for “Pakistani underground routes along the infiltration grid”, on Sunday advised reporters in Samba that the tunnel unearthed by BSF was probably one of a number of utilized by terrorists to enter the area.
Pre-fed GPS places on a communication machine discovered on one of the slain terrorists helped safety forces pinpoint the coordinates of the tunnel, sources mentioned.
The tunnel originates on the facet of the Chak Bhura, Rajab Sahid and Asif Sahid border outposts throughout the LoC and exits in the direction of the Regal border outpost on the Indian facet. The terrorists entered the tunnel by means of the Chak Bhura finish round 8.15pm on November 18, in accordance with the timings discovered on the GPS machine.
The journey time from one finish to a different was nearly 10 minutes, an intelligence official mentioned.
The MPS2505 machine carried by the terrorists has a number of choices to hint their coordinates, together with periodic location intervals. The coordinates needed to be decrypted.
“We found more than a dozen locations fed into the device. We have now also traced the route the terrorists took on foot to reach the highway, where they boarded a truck arranged by contacts in Samba. They had travelled 5-6 hours on foot,” a supply in J&Okay police mentioned.
DGP Singh identified that the tunnel had been bored and bolstered for reuse. “This proves our suspicion that Pakistan is bent on disrupting peace,” he mentioned, reiterating PM Narendra Modi‘s assertion final Friday that Pakistan-based outfit Jaish had began sending terrorists particularly to focus on the primary District Development Council polls in J&Okay.
The 4 Jaish terrorists killed in the Nagrota encounter have been travelling in a truck loaded with 11 AK-47 rifles, three pistols, 29 grenades (excluding these hurled on the safety personnel), some RDX, SOS medicines and an unspecified quantity of communication gadgets.
DGP Singh, BSF inspector common (Jammu) N S Jamwal and IGP (Jammu) Mukesh Singh collectively surveyed the infiltration spot after the tunnel was found on Sunday.
