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Israeli equipment helping check infiltration JAMMU, India, Monday (AFP) Troops manning the de-facto border with Pakistan in troubled Kashmir claimed they were successfully preventing infiltration of rebels into Indian-Kashmir thanks to new thermal imaging cameras from Israel. "The Israeli hand held thermal imagers have proved effective in tracking down groups of infiltrators on the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch and Rajouri districts," a senior army officer told AFP. Army officials said the imagers, with a range of up to four kilometres (2.5 miles), had helped to gun down as many as 70 militants on the LoC in the Poonch and Rajouri districts, west of Kashmir's winter capital 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). |
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