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Gujarat: BSF recovers 5 more abandoned Pakistani boats

| @indiablooms | Oct 12, 2019, at 06:36 pm

Bhuj, Oct 12 (UNI) Close on heels of the recovery of two abandoned Pakistani boats, the Border Security Force (BSF) on Saturday recovered five more such fishing boats Haraminala in creek area near Pakistan border in Kutch district of Gujarat.

A BSF officer today said that a patrol team of the force recovered the five boats. There was nothing suspicious in them and only some fishing equipment, nets, icebox and clothes were recovered from these small motor fitted boats which the Pakistani fishermen use for secret entry to the sea food and prawn rich marshy area in the hope of a big catch.

"The occupants of the boat must have like many other occasion fled and returned to the nearby Pakistani territory leaving behind the boats after getting the inkling of BSF patrol boats. As a precautionary measure search was conducted in the adjoining areas," he said.

Earlier on October 5, two such boats were recovered from the Laxman point in creek area by the BSF.  

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