Two Pakistanis, who had smuggled in four kgs of heroin worth Rs 20 crore in the international market, were shot dead in a brief encounter with BSF at the Gulgarh BOP along the Indo-Pak border.
In the wee hours of Saturday, three Pakistani smugglers crossed over to the Indian territory through BOP Gulgarh. When a BSF patrolling party asked them to stop and surrender, smugglers kept on moving towards the Indian territory and fired eight shots on the Indian side, BSF DIG RS Jaswal said.
The BSF in retaliation also open fired on them, killing two Pakistanis. However, the third managed to escape back to Pakistan, the DIG said. later, a search operation was launched, where BSF found two bodies of unidentified Pakistani nationals. Four kg of heroin, one Chinese automatic pistol, eighty used cartridges which were fired on BSF by the killed smugglers, 15 live cartridges and a Pakistani mobile sim card have been recovered from them, the DIG added.