JAMMU, Nov 9: Troops manning the Line of Control (LoC) on Sunday claimed they were successfully preventing ‘infiltration’ of rebels into held Kashmir due to new thermal imaging cameras from Israel.
“The Israeli hand-held thermal imagers have proved effective in tracking down groups of infiltrators on the LoC in Poonch and Rajouri districts,” a senior army officer told AFP.
Army officials claimed that the imagers, with a range of up to four kilometres had helped to gun down as many as 70 militants on the LoC in the Poonch and Rajouri districts, west of Jammu in the past six months.
“Patrol parties of the security forces have eliminated groups of infiltrators after watching their movement on the thermal imagers,” said Dilip Trivedi, inspector general of the paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF).
A police officer said the imagers had also resulted in the killing of 15 rebels trying to cross into Kashmir’s Mendhar area, 225km west of Jammu.—AFP
