Following the same, the India-Pakistan border security has been tightened and Home minister Rajnath Singh has sent the Border Security Force to the spot to help the Gurdaspur police.
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15 people have been killed out of which eight are police officials, including SP Gurdaspur Baljit Singh, two detainees who were in the lockup and three civilians including a female.
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Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar said army commandos have joined the police operations.
Gunshots could be heard on television as security forces surrounded the police station in the town of Dinanagar, about 20 km from the border. “It is very sad and such an incident has occurred here after so many years”, he said.
Authorities said two police officers and three civilians had been confirmed dead in the hours-long siege, which began early Monday in the town of Gurdaspur in the northern state of Punjab.
The station is near Punjab’s border with neighbouring Jammu and Kashmir state, but is not located near the border with Pakistan. They shot dead a roadside vendor near Dinanagar bypass.
“Spoke to Punjab Chief Minister Shri Prakash Singh Badal who apprised me of the developing situation in Gurudaspur”.
Bains said a group of about five attackers came in a white Susuki-Maruti hatchback vehicle, dressed in army uniforms.
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Witnesses said the terrorists fired on a bus going towards Jammu and later entered the police station. The bombs were carefully wired to the railway track at a small bridge near Parmanand railway station, five kms from Dinanagar. The IEDs were not immediately defused as the army’s bomb disposal unit from Jalandhar was awaited. So far there has been no confirmation about the identity of the attackers.
