AMRITSAR, Sept 12: Three rockets fired in quick succession from Pakistan exploded near a village in the country’s Amritsar district, triggering retaliatory gunfire by Indian border guards, officials said on Saturday.
The 107 MM rockets landed in the fields of Pul Kanjari area in Punjab with a deafening roar, police officials and residents said. No one was injured in the attack near the only India-Pakistan land border at Attari.
Pakistani authorities on Saturday denied any rockets were fired from their territory. But the Border Security Force (BSF) insisted that the firing did take place and displayed to journalists fragments of the rockets that fell in a civilian area around midnight on Friday, creating a scare.
The BSF also said it would retaliate “against any provocation”. “The 107 MM rockets are used by armies across the world. Some terrorists also use them. In July too the same rockets were fired in the area. We are investigating the matter,” BSF’s Punjab Frontier Deputy Inspector
The 107 MM rockets landed in the fields of Pul Kanjari area in Punjab with a deafening roar, police officials and residents said. No one was injured in the attack near the only India-Pakistan land border at Attari.
Pakistani authorities on Saturday denied any rockets were fired from their territory. But the Border Security Force (BSF) insisted that the firing did take place and displayed to journalists fragments of the rockets that fell in a civilian area around midnight on Friday, creating a scare.
The BSF also said it would retaliate “against any provocation”. “The 107 MM rockets are used by armies across the world. Some terrorists also use them. In July too the same rockets were fired in the area. We are investigating the matter,” BSF’s Punjab Frontier Deputy Inspector
