Gurdaspur terrorists had AK-47, grenades: Punjab DGP

The three terrorists, who stormed a police station complex in Gurdaspur's Dinanagar gunning down nearly a dozen people including a senior police officer, before being killed were carrying sophisticated weapons. Announcing their death which ended the 12-hour seige at the police station, Punjab Police chief Sumedh Singh Saini said the attackers had AK-47 rifles and grenades.

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"The terrorists had grenades with Made in China marking, sophisticated weapons, military clothes and even GPS units. They were all well trained," Saini said. "There were three terrorists and all of them were killed," he added.

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The heavily-armed fidayeen attackers, believed to have come from Pakistan, sprayed bullets on a moving bus in a pre-dawn strike around 5 am and then stormed a police station in what was the first major terror attack in the state in eight years. The terrorists, suspected to be members of either Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) or Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), also targeted a roadside eatery.

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The terrorists killed 11 persons - seven civilians, Superintendent of Police (Detective) Baljit Singh, a Punjab provincial service officer and three home guard jawans. The toll may go up as some of the 15 injured were in a serious condition. All the three militants were killed in the exchange of fire with security forces at an abandoned building adjacent to the Dinanagar police station.

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Though there was no official word on who the attackers were, but they are suspected to have sneaked into India from Pakistan through the unfenced border between Jammu and Pathankot or Chak Hira in Jammu district. Earlier this year, terrorists belonging to JeM whose fidayeen combatants, clad in Army fatigues, stormed a police station in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua District on March 20 killing six persons, including three security force personnel. "The operation is over," a top Punjab police official said at the end of a fierce gunbattle involving Punjab police and commandos of the elite Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) that lasted nearly 12 hours.

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Combing operations continued for some time after the multiple attacks in which 15 others were injured. Weapons and a Global Positioning System (GPS) equipment were recovered from the building where the terrorists were holed up.