Terrorists attacked the Indian Air Force (IAF) Station in Pathankot town in north Punjab early on Saturday, triggering a fierce gunfight.
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2016-01-02 08:01:02(IST): Stay with us for live updates on terrorist attack on Punjab air base.
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NSG team and Garud Commando Force are engaged in the gunbattle and the terrorists have been restrained to the domestic area of the Air Force Station.
SP Salwinder Singh, his friend Rajesh Verma, a jeweller, and Verma’s cook Madan Gopal were in the police officer’s SUV when they were allegedly waylaid by a group of five armed men in Army fatigues on the Pathankot-Jammu highway. The suspected terrorists dumped them some distance away, before speeding away in his vehicle.
Salwinder said as they stopped their vehicle, all the five men barged inside the vehicle and started beating them.
An injured man is seen in this file picture after unrest between India and Pakistan.
Police said the vehicle, which the terrorists abandoned later, was recovered near Dhira village, in Bihar.
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Inspector General (Border Range) Lok Nath Angra said high alert has been sounded and search operation was launched to apprehend the culprits. “The gunfire is still going on”, Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh, director-general of police in Pathankot district in Punjab state told AFP.
