- Monday, May 06, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
POLICE on Wednesday (30) launched a house-to-house verification drive in residential colonies near the Jammu airport, three days after an Indian Air Force (IAF) base there was targeted using drones. It was a first-of-a-kind Pakistan-backed terror attack using drones that left two personnel suffering minor injuries.
It was learned that during the drive that began from Peer Baba in the Chatta area in Jammu, police personnel collected details from residents, including their contact numbers. The air force also deployed an unmanned aerial vehicle fitted with camera that hovered over its base and nearby residential areas for several hours in the afternoon, officials said. They added that additional floodlights have been set up at the base. A team of the elite counter-terrorism unit National Security Guard also visited the base though it was not clear what action it took.
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Two bombs were dropped in the attacks that happened in the early hours of June 27. The explosions took place within a gap of six minutes and the first of them ripped of the roof of a single-storey building at the technical area of the airport which us manned by the air force. The second one happened on the ground.
The next day, alert personnel of the Indian army fired at more drones that were spotted over the brigade headquarters at the Ratnuchak-Kaluchak station and the army said a major threat was thwarted.
