After two explosives-laden drones crashed into the high-security Indian Air Force station at Jammu airport, a high alert was sounded in Punjab’s border district of Pathankot on Sunday. A tight vigil is being maintained near key installations in Pathankot with the Police setting up 14 checkposts in the area.
Notably, the Pathankot Air Force base had come under terror attack five years ago.
The police stated that patrolling has been strengthened near sensitive areas in and around Pathankot and additional forces have been deployed.
“We are on our guard in view of the situation. Whenever there is an incident of this kind, maximum alert is sounded in neighbouring areas,” said Pathankot’s Senior Superintendent of Police Surendra Lamba when asked if additional security measures have been put in place in wake of the Jammu incident.
“We are checking vigorously our inter-state border movement. We have deployed additional forces also,” he said, adding that specialized commandos and SWAT teams of Punjab Police are being deployed strategically.
Checking of vehicles headed to Jammu and entering Pathankot from Jammu and Kashmir side has been intensified, Lamba said.
The drones crashed into the Air Force station at Jammu airport in the early hours of Sunday. Two IAF personnel were injured in the explosions that took place around 1.40 am within six minutes of each other.
The first blast ripped off the roof of a single-storey building at the technical area of the airport manned by the IAF in Satwari area of the city. The second one was on the ground, the officials said