Terror returns to Punjab, security forces kill all attackers in 12- hour long gun battle
27 July 2015 1:29 PM IST27 July 2015 1:29 PM IST
Terror returns to Punjab, security forces kill all attackers in 12- hour long gun battle
Preliminary investigations into the Gurdaspur terror strike indicate that the three suspected Lashker-e-Taiba militants had entered the country through Bamiyal village in Pathankot, located close to the international border. (Photo: PTI)- According to the police, the mayhem started around 5 am when the attackers first targeted a roadside eatery and took off in a car after killing a person who was sleeping near Dinanagar bypass. (Photo: AFP)
- The BSF has stepped up vigil along International Border. BSF IG, Punjab Frontier, Anil Paliwal said that they have enhanced vigil along the entire International Border with Pakistan and their senior officers are currently in the Gurdaspur Sector. (
- Fierce firing could be heard around the police station in the town of Gurdaspur, bringing panicked residents out onto the streets. (Photo: PTI)
- Police said out of the eight injured brought to civil hospital at Gurdaspur, seven seriously injured were referred to Amritsar. They all were aged between 15-54 years. (Photo: PTI)
- Official sources said it was too early to say which terrorist outfit had carried out the strike, but the finger of suspicion is on Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba as the modus operandi of the militants was similar to the attacks in Jammu region in
- Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said that special forces, which can counter insurgency and terrorist forces, have been deployed. (Photo: PTI)
- No group has taken responsibility of the attack so far. However, the operation of the attack is similar to the ones that have taken place in Jammu and Kashmir in the recent months. (Photo: PTI)
- Army was called in from Pathankot and the whole area has been cordoned off. Quick Reaction Teams, bomb squads, police including senior officers have also been deployed in the area, which lies close to the Indo-Pakistan border. (Photo: AP)
- Addressing Parliament over the attack, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said India would not be the first to strike, but if hit would give a fitting reply. (Photo: AP)
- The Army continues operation against the four militants, who are holed up in the empty Dinanagar police station complex. Harchanran Singh Bains, a Punjab state government spokesman, has said two militants have already been killed but there is no
- In a related development, five live bombs were found on Amritsar-Pathankot railway track and the train services on the route have been suspended. (Photo: Twitter)
- Home Minister Rajnath Singh, said he would give a statement on the attack, in Parliament on Tuesday. (Photo: AFP)
- The terrorists also targeted a community health centre adjacent to the Dinanagar police station, killing a policeman and three civilians including a woman. (Photo: AFP)
- The attackers, who were wearing Army uniform, entered the Dinanagar Police Station and opened fire at the police personnel. (Photo: AFP)
- Authorities said two police officers and three civilians had been confirmed dead in the ongoing siege in Dina Nagar town in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab. (Photo: AFP)
- Indian security forces were Monday battling an armed attack on a police station near the Pakistan border in which at least five people have been killed. (Photo: AP)
- Two Army helicopters were also pressed into operation. (Photo: PTI)
- Punjab Superintendent of Police (Detective) Baljeet Singh died after being shot in the head while fighting terrorists. (Photo: AFP)
- Additional police and other security personnel have been deployed around vital installations and key public places in the state. (Photo: PTI)
- 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. (Photo: PTI)
- A high alert has been sounded and security strengthened across Punjab, neighbouring Haryana and Union Territory of Chandigarh in the wake of the terror attack which came less than three weeks before the country's Independence Day. (Photo: PTI)
- A person who was shot at a dhaba by armed militants at Dinanagar town in Gurdaspur. (Photo: PTI)
- Though there was no official word on who the attackers were, they are suspected to have sneaked into India from Pakistan through the unfenced border between Jammu and Pathankot or Chak Hira in Jammu district, according to inputs received by central
- Victory chants raised by Punjab SWAT team after Gurdaspur attack ended. (Photo: PTI)
- Earlier this year, terrorists belonging to JeM whose fidayeen combatants, clad in Army fatigues, stormed a police station in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua District on March 20 killing six persons, including three security force personnel. (Photo: PTI)
- Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal visits Guru Nanak Hospital, to enquire well being of injured persons. (Photo: PTI)
- Police personnel take positions during an encounter with armed militants in Dinanagar town. (Photo: PTI)
- The investigators are pinning their hope on seized Global Positioning System (GPS), a compass used by travellers to reach their destinations. (Photo: PTI)
- Punjab police personnel carry the body of a militant after an encounter between security forces and armed militants. (Photo: PTI)
- In the last one month, at least three to four alerts were shared with both the BJP-led Central government and the Akali-BJP government in Punjab of specific infiltration bids along the International Border. (Photo: PTI)
- Specific inputs were available with both the Central and state government agencies of two to four suspected fidayeen terrorists trying to enter through the Shakargarh-Sialkot border area in Jammu. (Photo: PTI)
- The suspected terrorists are believed to have crossed over from Shakargarh in Pakistan to Bamiyal village and later travelled to Parmanand village, official sources said. (Photo: PTI)
Preliminary investigations into the Gurdaspur terror strike indicate that the three suspected Lashker-e-Taiba militants had entered the country through Bamiyal village in Pathankot, located close to the international border. (Photo: PTI)
Terror returns to Punjab, security forces kill all attackers in 12- hour long gun battle
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