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Heroin worth Rs 85 cr seized at Indo-Pak border

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Press Trust of India Amritsar
Seventeen kilograms of Heroin worth Rs 85 crore were seized by BSF personnel at the International border here as smugglers allegedly from Pakistan managed to escape, officials said today.

Few intruders from Pakistan were seen moving inside the Indian territory after crossing the barbed fencing, a BSF official said.

Inspite of repeated warning, the intruders were not willing to surrender following which BSF troops fired two gun shots but the intruders under the cover of darkness managed to return to Pakistan, he added.

The official said that in the morning today when massive search operation was launched, the BSF recovered seventeen kilograms of heroin which the intruders did not manage to take back.

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First Published: Oct 06 2013 | 2:20 PM IST

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