Bobiya Bop (J-K): The Border Security Force (BSF) has put up anti-sniping measures for the safety of its troops guarding the Indo-Pak border in Jammu frontier. “We have installed anti-sniping measures for safety and security of our jawans guarding the borderline with Pakistan in Jammu frontier,” DIG, BSF Virender Singh told PTI here.
Anti-sniping measures are undertaken to prevent BSF troops to become targets of any firing by snipers across the border. The measures have been taken in view of the several incidents of sniping from the Pakistani side in which one jawan was killed and three others injured in the last few months. Nets have been put in place in most of the BOPs and Observation Posts (OPs) to avoid sniping, the DIG said.
To ensure the safety and security of the troops and people along the IB, BSF is all set to raise a 10-metre high embankment along the IB in Jammu frontier, he said. The 41-metre wide and 10-metre high embankment is being raised from Akhnoor Sector to Kathua to secure troops, living along the IB, from sniper firing from the Pakistani side and they can freely move behind it, he said. (PTI)