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Army puts all units in Jammu and Kashmir on high alert
New Delhi, June 28: Apprehending more suicide attacks, Army today put all its units in Jammu and Kashmir on high alert and announced that anti-militancy sweeps throughout the state would be stepped up.
New Delhi, June 28: Apprehending more suicide
attacks, Army today put all its units in Jammu and Kashmir on
high alert and announced that anti-militancy sweeps throughout
the state would be stepped up.
Army sources here said that according to preliminary
reports the two terrorists who had carried out the suicide
attack on Sunjiwan camp on the outskirts of Jammu City had
crossed the border within the last 48 hours with specific
instructions to carry out big Fidayeen strikes.
The Army spokesman Brig Shruti Kant said, "Leads on
the terrorists and their linkages are being followed up".
The terrorists entered the army camp dressed in Army uniform
and followed the pattern of May 14, 2001 attack on Army
barracks at Kaluchak when 34 family members of jawans were
slain.
Though intelligence reports had warned of such attacks,
the sources said that Tall Sarkanda grass around the Sunjiwan
Camp had prevented the detection of terrorists. Army have now
ordered cutting of all such growth near cantonment areas and
Army border camps.
The spokesman said post operation Sarp Vinash launched to
flush militants from their hideouts in the Surankot heights
has now been widened with similar smaller scale operations
being undertaken in other areas of Doda, south and north
Kashmir.
Bureau Report
Bureau Report