by Nigeria Camera | War On Terror
India has arrested two Nigerian males on suspicion of planning to join the terror group IS, according to media reports.
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| Imran Kabeer and Sani Jamiliu were arrested in India on suspicion of planning to travel to join ISIS. (Credit: via Nigeria Camera). |
On Friday, alert members of Border Security Force troopers stopped the two men whose identities were given as Imran Kabeer and Sani Jamiliu. They were arrested at the volatile India-Pakistan border after scaling a barbed wire fence near the border, say Nigeria Camera.
The men, aged around 24-25, from Nigeria's northern state of Kano, were later handed over Punjabi Police after they told told BSF officials they wanted to go to Pakistan and later to Iraq, but had no valid travel documents to enter Pakistan.
Both youths arrived in the Sikh holy city of Amritsar, 30 km from Punjab , on Thursday from Delhi in a hired taxi, but later argued with the taxi driver before driving away his Swift Dzire car, report said.
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They arrived at the integrated checkpoint at Attari yesterday morning, but found the gates closed.
“On finding the border gates closed, the youths moved towards a barbed wire fence along the Attari-Wagah rail track (on which the Samjhauta Express peace train between both countries plies) and jumped over the high barbed wire fence, thinking they had entered Pakistan. BSF personnel immediately nabbed them,” a BSF official said.
BSF Amritsar sector deputy inspector general M.F. Farooqui confirmed the arrest.
The entire 553-km international border between India and Pakistan in Punjab is on high alert following the July 27 terror attack on Dinanagar town in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district by Pakistani terrorists. Security is also tight in view of the coming Independence Day on August 15.
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