Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 24: Flash floods triggered by heavy rains have caused minor damage to a section of the fencing along the International Border (IB) in RS Pura sector.
Official reports said that a portion of border fencing in river belts along IB in RS Pura has suffered minor damage by flash floods caused by recent heavy Monsoon rains.
During the last few days, heavy rains have caused flash floods in various rivers along the border, resulting in damage to the border fencing in R S Pura belt, the reports said.
“However, there is no major damage to the fencing. Efforts are being made to repair it,” sources said.
They said that no post suffered damage due to the flash floods and jawans were keeping a round-the-clock vigil along the border.
Last year, the BSF had repaired and reconstructed over 500 meters long fencing patches along the Indo-Pak border in Samba district, which were damaged by torrential rains and floods.
Parts of the three-tier border fencing along IB were washed away in Nursury-Bandtop forward belt of Ramgarh sub-sector of Samba district due to flash floods in Bansantar river.
Nearly, 190 kilometers of the border along the IB in Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts in Jammu frontier has been fenced to stop cross-border infiltration and smuggling of narcotics and weapons into the State from across the border.
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