A day after three heavily-armed terrorists were killed in nearly 12-hour-long exchange of fires, their bodies were taken out on Tuesday afternoon from the double-storeyed building where the trio had been holed up for most part of Monday’s gunbattle.
It was an old building of Dinanagar police station, and the new building is located in its front in the same compound.
Earlier, a Punjab Police bomb disposal squad conducted a controlled blast at 3.10 pm, which created a panic among the residents.
A high-level team of Punjab forensic experts also gathered vital clues to ascertain the identity and motive of the terrorists on Tuesday morning.
The forensic experts had closely inspected the bullet-riddled white Maruti car that the terrorists had hijacked to reach the police station. The experts also inspected the weapons and ammunition used by the terrorists.
The markings on the weapons and belongings of the three terrorists, cladded in army uniforms, had been erased, the police sources said, adding that this was a bid to conceal their identities.
The terrorists were in their early 20s and were found to be circumcised and had their chests shaved, police sources said.
Army choppers carried out surveillance checks in the area. Army personnel were deployed in rooftops of buildings adjoining the police station.