Four terrorists and three Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel were
killed in an attack on an air force base in Punjab’s Pathankot district
early on Saturday morning Jan 02,2016 , setting alarm bells ringing across the
country.
Gunshots rocked the facility around 3:30am on the second day of a new
year as a group of at least five men in army-style clothing - believed
to be operatives of the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist group - launched the
daring operation less than 24 hours after an alert was sounded in the
state over the assault of a top police officer by suspected Pakistani
terrorists.
Security forces were on the lookout for a possible fifth suspect
after the Pathankot attack, police said.
Even though police said the gun
battle ended by 8am, shots and loud explosions were heard from inside
the base around 11am.
At least one helicopter could be seen firing at an area inside the
facility. No other details were available about the fresh fighting.
JeM, a group blamed for the
December 2001 attack on Parliament that killed 11 people, had probably
infiltrated about three days ago.
Pathankot — located at the
tri-junction of Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh — is on a
highway that connects insurgency-hit J-K with the rest of the country.
A team of 50 commandos of the National Security Guard (NSG) led the
fight against the militants at the air force base, a top security
official said.
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