Gurudaspur: Investigation into the Punjab terror attack where the Gurudaspur police station was barged into and a continuous attack ended in killing seven people seems to indicate that the group of suspected militants had crossed over to the Indian side from Pakistan’s Shakargarh area, according to reports.
Writing for a noted daily, Praveen Swami quoted unnamed sources as saying that the militants left a safehouse on the fringes of Gharot, a village near Shakargarh, late Sunday night.
PTI has reported that the three militants who held up a police station had entered the country through Bamiyal village close to the International Border. The investigators are pinning their hopes on seized Global Positioning System (GPS) to ascertain the movements of the militants who were killed in the gun battle. The GPS has been sent for forensic examination.
As a part of the investigation, a high-level forensic team visited the building that stood abandoned near the Dinanagar police station where the terrorists were holed up. The team of four forensics team led by Davinder Pal Sehgal and Ashwani Kumar started their investigations, police said
Director General of Punjab Police Sumedh Singh Saini had said the terrorists were carrying sophisticated weapons. “We have recovered ‘Made in China’ grenades from them. They were wearing combat fatigues,“ he had said and added that the attack was ”planned” as their modus operandi pointed at a specific direction.
Saini said AK 47 guns and hand grenades were recovered from the terrorists, who had attacked the sentry at the police station before engaging with the SHO and the SP.
Seven persons including the Superintendent of Police (Detective), Baljit Singh, a Punjab provincial service officer, three home guards and three civilians were killed by the suspected terrorists yesterday.
Senior Superintendent of Police Gurdaspur Gurpreet Singh said the bodies of the militants have been kept at the civil hospital and their weapons were being examined. An alert has been sounded along the international border in Punjab and Jammu as the terrorists are suspected to have infiltrated from there.
Dinanagar town, which is close to Pakistan, falls in Gurdaspur district. It lies between Gurdaspur town on the one side and Pathankot on the other and lies about 260 km from capital Chandigarh.
