Punjab Police launch search operation after suspicious men spotted in Pathankot, Gurdaspur

The Punjab Police and other security agencies launched a search operation in some of the areas of Pathankot and Gurdaspur districts of Punjab on Wednesday after four to six suspicious men were sighted in these areas.

The police said that the search operation was still going on.

They are linking the sighting of these men to an incident in Gurdaspur district on Tuesday in which a Scorpio SUV broke a police barrier.

An officer said there were at least six people inside the vehicle when it jumped the barrier. The SUV was later found abandoned.

"It had a fake registration number plate. The car was stolen at knife-point from a person in Vijaynagar area of Jammu," the officer said.

The security agencies remained on high alert in border districts of Gurdaspur and Pathankot following the terrorist attacks on the Pathankot Air Force base on January 2016 and in Dinanagar town in Gurdaspur district on July 2015.

Both these districts share an international border with Pakistan and are close to the strife-torn Jammu and Kashmir

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