Chandigarh: A high alert has been sounded across Delhi, Punjab, Maharashtra and Goa following an alert by the Punjab Police warning about the entry of three heavily armed Pakistani terrorists who might be suicide bombers.
The terrorists are travelling from Jammu and Kashmir in a grey Swift Dzire car along with a local resident and are expected to cross the Banihal tunnel later on Wednesday night, the alert says, adding their target could be in Delhi, Goa and Mumbai.
"An alert has been issued in the state (Punjab) after we received an input from the special cell of Delhi police," the Punjab Police DGP (Law and Order) HS Dhillon said.
The alert issued to all the Commissionerates and SSPs in the state, states the car "bearing registration number JK-01 AB-2654 is carrying three Pakistani militants and a local. The Pakistani militants have sufficient arms, ammunition and possibly suicide belt."
Police officers have been asked to focus on strict checking of vehicles, security of vital installations including police buildings and defence establishments, religious places, markets, malls, railway stations and tracks, and educational institutions.
In January 2016, terrorists had attacked an air force base in Pathankot, killing seven military personnel. They had car-jacked two vehicles - one belonging to a Punjab Police SP and another to a taxi driver - to travel to the base near the Pakistan border. In July 2015, the state had witnessed an attack in Dinanangar of the border Gurdaspur district.
With PTI Inputs.
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