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