Jammu:  Amid tension prevailing in areas along the Indo-Pak border after the surgical strikes in PoK to dismantle terrorist launch pads, nearly 10,000 villagers living along IB and LoC have migrated to safer areas in Jammu district.

  • "Nearly 10,000 people have migrated from border villages to safer areas today," Jammu Deputy Commissioner Simrandeep Singh said on Friday


 

  • Most of the people migrated to safer areas in Jammu


 

  • Amid the tensions at the border, most of the villages observed extreme calm and silence on Friday night


 

  • People residing in the villages along the LoC, didn’t maintained complete darkness after orders from Border Security Force


 

  • 600 of the migrants have shifted to camps set up by the government


 

  • All the people living within 6 to 7 kms of the border have been asked to move to safer areas and schools within 10 kms of the border have been closed till further notice


 

  • These directions have been passed to people living along IB in Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts and along LoC in Rajouri and Poonch, officials said


 

  • Most of them have shifted to the houses of their relatives in safer places, a police officer said


 

  • The hospitals in the border belt have been put on alert


 

  • Army has evacuated some people living in border areas in Noushera belt of Rajouri anticipation of a possible retaliation by Pakistani troops, officials said