Jammu: The Border Security Force (BSF) Jammu, on Thursday, foiled a weapon smuggling attempt from Pakistan along the International Border(IB) in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district and seized a big cache of arms and ammunition, officials said.
"The BSF, Jammu today foiled a weapon smuggling attempt from across the IB in Samba area and seized a big cache of arms and ammunition," BSF DIG S P S Sandhu said.
The seizure includes 4 pistols, 8 pistol magazines and 232 rounds. The DIG said they are probing into the incident.
There have been several incidents of weapons and narcotic substance smuggling attempts made by terrorists from across the border. They have been attempts to drop weapons on our Indian side through drones as well in the past six months.
It may be recalled that an arms consignment including one AK assault rifle, three magazines and 30 rounds believed to have been dropped by a drone from Pakistan had been recovered last Saturday by police near the international border from Sounjana village of Phalain Mandal, about six km from the IB.
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On September 27, BSF recovered four pistols, eight magazines, 100 rounds of ammunition, a packet of narcotics weighing about one kg along with Fake Indian Currency Notes(FICN) having a face value of Rs 2,75,000, from the IB in Akhnoor sector of Jammu district, officials said.
