It took 11-hours to neutralise three terrorists in Gurdaspur police station

It was a terrible morning when three militants, suspected to be from Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), killed seven people and injured several others before being gunned down by commandos of the Punjab Police in Dinanagar town of Gurdaspur district.
It took nearly 11 hours to neutralize the terrorists. The action was undertaken by the state police commandos who were supported by the army, National Security Guards (NSG) and Special Security Group (SSG) commandos.
This has been reported in dnaindia.com dated 28 July 2015.

The three militants we finally killed and as per official sources, they had infiltrated from Pakistan's Bamiyal sector. This is an international border just 20 km away from the city's bus stand.
The militants were dressed in army fatigues and they first attacked the driver of a Maruti 800 around 5:30 am on the Taragarh-Dinanagar road behind the bus stand and hijacked the car. As they sped away, they fired indiscriminately on a Jammu-bound bus that was carrying 70 passengers.
The terrorists then entered the two-storey police building, which was in a dilapidated state, and took the building into their custody hurling grenades at security forces to keep them at bay.
In the opinion of the Punjab police, the target of the militants was possibly Amarnath pilgrims but, due to some reasons, they changed their plans and targeted the police station.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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#bokoharam #maiduguri #nigeria #bornostate Militants of the Islamist group of Boko Haram have launched a fresh assault on the strategically important Nigerian city of Maiduguri as reported in bbc.com dated 1 February 2015. There were reports of gunfire on the streets of the northern city following an attack that began in the early hours of Sunday. There were sounds of heavy artillery fire as the militants attacked the city from four directions.
This attack has come a week after Boko Haram's last attempt of capturing the capital of Borno state. The attack was repelled by the Nigerian army with heavy loss of life.
This Boko Haram group had begun guerrilla operations in 2009 and their objective was to create an Islamic state. In the process, it has already taken over the control of many towns and villages in north-eastern Nigeria in the last year. Their last attempt to take over Maiduguri a week ago was stopped by the military. However, they did succeed to capture the town of Monguno located 125-Km outside the city and also took over a military base.
The conflict has already displaced at least 1.5 million people and unconfirmed reports indicate a loss of lives of the order of 2000 last year.
As to the latest attack, the security forces are tight lipped and have so far not commented – their handling of the six-year insurgency has often met with criticism and the loss of Maiduguri would be another major setback.