Another Pakistani boat found in Sir Creek area off Gujarat coast, 4 recovered in 3 days

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Bhuj: Another Pakistani boat was found this morning in Sir creek area close to the international border off the coast of Kutch district in Gujarat, a senior official of the BSF today said.
With this in last three days a total of 4 such boats have been found in the same controversial marshy area.

There was no one in the boat found in the wee hour today as was the case with the earlier recovered three boats, 2 of which were found during UAV aerial surveillance last evening while one was seized on January 31.

There were some fishing equipment, icebox, fishing net, diesel can and fishes in the boat.

From the two boats found last evening 7 pair of clothes, 3 mobile phones, 5 sim cards, fishing hooks, wheat flour and rice were recovered.

The occupants of the boat seemingly fishermen from Pakistan doing fishing illegally in the Indian waters most likely ran away and entered Pak territory through the nearby land border.

BSF has launched a search operation in the nearby areas as a precautionary measure, the official said adding that the articles recovered from the boats especially the phones and sims are being examined.

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