Officials said the attackers had tried to enter the compound but had not been able to and were now in an adjacent building.
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Operation against terrorists still on: IAF officer
However, no reports have emerged of any remaining presence of terrorist in the Air Base. “The operations are at a mature stage”. Air Commodore JS Dhamoon, Air Officer Commanding, Air Force Station Pathankot , said “The operations are at a mature stage”.
Afghan security forces have battled a group of gunmen near the Indian consulate in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, officials say, as gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades rocked the surrounding area.
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Afghan news agency Pajhwok Afghan News said in a tweet: “Police confirmed blast in gun fires in PD4 near to #Indian consulate in #Afghanistan’s Mazar-i-Sharif city”.
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The Indian consulate in Herat, Afghanistan was attacked on May 23, 2014 by four heavily-armed militants. Shortly after the attack, the Afghan forces deployed it’s officials and two terrorists were killed on the spot.
Speaking to the AFP news agency, an Indian official apparently talking from inside the building said fighting continued outside.
Vikas Swarup, a spokesman for India’s ministry of external affairs, said that no Indian casualties had been reported so far.
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The Afghan National Directorate of Security recently said troops arrested a suicide bomber, thwarting his plans to attack the Indian consulate in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Kabul on December 25. The Indian embassy in Kabul was stormed in 2008 and 2009 and dozens were killed in the two attacks.
