Incidents of unprovoked firing from the Pakistani side along the international border (IB) in Jammu have quadrupled this year as against 2017 and the figure was the highest in the past five years, according to official data.

The latest data accessed by also shows that the Border Security Force (BSF) suffered the maximum casualties this year — 12 deaths and 40 injured. The data shows that till September this year, a total of 498 incidents of cross-border firing have taken place along the IB in Jammu as compared to 111 last year.

The corresponding figures for the previous three years were 204 (in 2016), 350 (in 2015) and 127 (in 2014). Twelve BSF personnel have been killed in these incidents this year, including the brutal killing of Head Constable Narender Singh last month.

Singh was shot dead and his throat slit when his team went towards the fence to cut thick and long elephant grass near their border post in Ramgarh sector of Jammu. Read More

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