In a fresh ‘sniper’ attack by Pakistan rangers, a senior BSF officer was martyred, first in 2019, along the International Border in Hiranagar sector of Kathua on Tuesday.
The BSF troops, led by the Assistant commandant, Vinay Prasad, were carrying out Border domination patrol near BOP, Pansar in Hiranagar, when they were fired upon by Pakistan snipers around 10.50 am. The BSF officer received serious injuries as he was hit in the abdomen.
According to a BSF spokesman in Jammu, “the injured officer was taken to Military Hospital in Satwari, Jammu where he succumbed to his injuries and attained martyrdom”.
More than one dozen BSF jawans were martyred and over 40 others injured in different incidents of cross border firing and sniper attacks by Pakistan rangers during 2018.
High alert was sounded along the International Border across Jammu frontier following reports of fresh infiltration bids by small groups of heavily armed infiltrators in the coming days.
Meanwhile, the Line of Control (LoC) in Sunderbani area of Rajouri and Mendhar and Balakote sectors of Poonch also witnessed heavy shelling in the evening in which two jawans including a BSF personnel received grievous injuries.
The seriously injured BSF jawan was airlifted to Military hospital in Udhampur, official sources said.
Till the time of filing the report, shelling with heavy calibre of weapons was going on in different sectors of Rajouri and Poonch. In response, the Indian army too was retaliating effectively, official sources said.