Indian troops shoot dead Pakistani crossing frontier
AFP | Ahmedabad
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Indian border troops shot dead a Pakistani man whom they said had crossed the international frontier and did not stop when challenged, the Border Security Force (BSF) said yesterday.
The shooting comes two weeks after arch-rivals India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire after a four-day conflict in which more than 70 people were killed in missile, drone and artillery fire.
India’s BSF said its troops had on the evening of May 23 spotted “one suspicious person advancing towards the border fence”, which lies beyond the international frontier in Gujarat state’s Banaskantha district.
“They challenged the intruder, but he continued to advance, prompting them to open fire,” BSF said in a statement. “The intruder was neutralised on the spot.”
A photograph released by the force showed a dead man with greying hair.
The recent conflict between the nuclear-armed rivals was triggered by an attack on tourists in India’s Kashmir on April 22, the deadliest on civilians in the territory in decades.
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