New Delhi: In a latest development, CCTV footage of three terrorists who attacked Gurdaspur has surfaced. The video shows the armed men, dressed in Army uniform walking through a street, just minutes before the attack.
The GPS data retrieved from them establishes that the Dinanagar police station was a planned attack.
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The terrorists, suspected to be members of either Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) or Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), in army fatigues first targeted a roadside eatery, then sprayed bullets on a passenger bus and later barged into the Dinanagar police station.
Seven persons--three civilians, Superintendent of Police (Detective), Baljit Singh, a Punjab provincial service officer, three home guards were killed by the terrorists, said GP Punjab Police Sumedh Singh Saini, who led the operation against the terrorists holed up in an abandoned building near the police station.
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The terrorists snatched a white Maruti 800 car and moved about in it before abandoning it.
All the three militants were killed in the 12-hour-long gun battle with the police and elite commandos of the Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT). Chinese-made weapons and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) were recovered from them, Saini said.
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