Woman ‘intruder’ shot dead by BSF on Pak border in J&K
Alert troops 'neutralised' intruder after she ignored repeated warnings
A woman ‘intruder’ was shot dead by the Border Security Force (BSF) along the International Border (IB) with Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ranbir Singh Pora on Sunday night.
Inspector General of the BSF (Jammu range) S. P. S. Sandhu said that alert troops “neutralised” the intruder after she ignored repeated warnings of the border guards. “The BSF troops noticed suspicious movement and warned the intruder many times not to cross the IB but the intruder kept running towards border fencing aggressively,” Sandhu said.
He added that the alert BSF troops fired and neutralised the intruder near BSF fencing inside the IB and thwarted the “infiltration attempt”.
It is for the first time in many years that “a lady Pakistani intruder” has been killed along the IB, the 198-km stretch of the India-Pakistan border which is, however, called ‘Working Boundary’ by Islamabad for it passes through “disputed J&K.”
Meanwhile, the Personal Security Officer (PSO) of a BJP activist and his “associate” have been missing since Sunday night in J&K’s frontier Kupwara district. “Efforts are underway to trace the missing persons,” the police sources said.
The sources said that during the intervening night of December 12 and 13, Special Police Officer Saqib Ahmad Tantry, deployed as PSO with BJP activist Abdul Rashid Zargar fled with two weapons. Saqib’s “associate” Arif Ahmad son, also a resident of Kupwara, is missing too, the sources added.
Originally a resident of Kupwara Lolab valley, Zargar is presently being kept along with other protected persons in a PWD building at Salkoot, sources said.