JAMMU: A jawan of the Border Security Force was martyred and every other was injured early on Friday in an unprovoked firing alongside the India-Pakistan world border (IB) in Arnia sector of Jammu, officials said.
The slain jawan was known as 28-year-old constable Sitaram Upadhyay. He hailed from Giridih in Jharkhand and joined the pressure in 2011.
Upadhyay is survived through a three-year-old son and a one-year-old daughter, they said.
"Firing in Heeranagar area was on during the intervening night of May 16 and 17 in which one BSF trooper was injured. Yesterday, during the daytime, it stopped but Pakistan resumed firing last night in Arnia sector which claimed the life of a jawan early today," a senior legit of the border guarding pressure said.
The legit added that in RS Pura sector of the IB in Jammu, unprovoked shelling of mortars and heavy fire from the Pakistani facet started at about 4 am nowadays which was being "suitably countered" through the BSF units.
"The firing in R S Pura sector is intermittent," he said.
The incidents of unprovoked firing and makes an attempt to infiltrate the IB have greater in the previous couple of days at the same time as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is predicted to achieve Jammu and Kashmir the next day as part of an legit seek advice from.
A BSF jawan was martyred alongside the Jammu border house earlier this week whilst he was thwarting an infiltration bid.
The slain jawan was known as 28-year-old constable Sitaram Upadhyay. He hailed from Giridih in Jharkhand and joined the pressure in 2011.
Upadhyay is survived through a three-year-old son and a one-year-old daughter, they said.
"Firing in Heeranagar area was on during the intervening night of May 16 and 17 in which one BSF trooper was injured. Yesterday, during the daytime, it stopped but Pakistan resumed firing last night in Arnia sector which claimed the life of a jawan early today," a senior legit of the border guarding pressure said.
The legit added that in RS Pura sector of the IB in Jammu, unprovoked shelling of mortars and heavy fire from the Pakistani facet started at about 4 am nowadays which was being "suitably countered" through the BSF units.
"The firing in R S Pura sector is intermittent," he said.
The incidents of unprovoked firing and makes an attempt to infiltrate the IB have greater in the previous couple of days at the same time as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is predicted to achieve Jammu and Kashmir the next day as part of an legit seek advice from.
A BSF jawan was martyred alongside the Jammu border house earlier this week whilst he was thwarting an infiltration bid.
BSF jawan martyred in Pakistan firing along international border in Jammu
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