A BSF jawan was severely injured in an IED blast that occurred close to the fence alongside the India-Pakistan Worldwide Border in Punjab Wednesday. That is the primary such occasion of an IED getting used on this space.
The incident occurred close to the Chhathra Border Outpost (BOP) in Dorangla village, Gurdaspur.
The BSF has issued an “alert” alongside the 553 km of this entrance in Punjab and suspension of farming across the blast space.
Senior BSF officers and native police arrived on the spot and launched an investigation. The constable-rank jawan suffered accidents to his ft and certainly one of his toes was blown off, sources mentioned. He’s present process therapy at a non-public hospital in Amritsar.
Officers from BSF’s Punjab Frontier, headquartered in Jalandhar, have reached the spot and are enterprise a safety assessment whilst an alert has been issued, a senior BSF officer primarily based in Punjab mentioned.
“That is the primary time that an IED assault has taken place on this space or wherever alongside the Punjab border or for that matter throughout the complete 2,289 km of the worldwide border,” the officer mentioned, including that the pressure will lodge a criticism with the native police.
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