JAMMU ATTACKS UPDATE

27th Sept. 13Update on Kathua Jammu Terror attack If brutally injured auto driver Roshan Lal has to be believed three terrorists- who killed nearly a dozen people during twin terror attack on Thursday at Hiranagar and Samba, were in constant touch with some local guides who were regularly giving them directions. Involvement of some locals was not ruled out in this dreaded terror strike because it was all due to the guidance of some local people that terrorists managed to enter Army formation at Maheshwar, near Samba on Jammu-Pathankote national level. “As soon as they (terrorists) kidnapped me on gun point, they were continuously taking direction from some one on phone. It was all due to this guidance that they inquired me about CRPF and Army camp”, Roshan Lal, who is under treatment at Government Medical College Hospital told the reporters. Roshan Lal was intercepted by a group of three terrorists near the cremation ground at village Haria Chak, which located just near the International Border (IB). “They were dressed in Army combat fatigues. They asked me to take them to the highway, which aroused my suspicion. I first took them to Sanji Morh hoping the police checkposts en route would stop us, but the checkposts were not manned. Then I brought them to Chadwal on the highway,” he said. “They asked me to stop the auto-rickshaw near a railway bridge on the highway. They alighted and discussed something on phone and then asked me to take them to some Army or CRPF camp on the highway,” Lal said and added that there was possibility that another group has also managed to sneak into this side. “Terrorists were speaking in Urdu with Punjabi ascent while taking directions from there unknown mentors”, he said. Roshan Lal believed that terrorists had entered into this side just a few hours from across border as they were looking exhausted and tired. According to Intelligence sources, the terrorists probably infiltrated into India from Chhap Nullah near Salalpur village in Hiranagar tehsil of Kathua district early this morning and launched the audacious attacks, first on a police station and then on an Army camp. They could have taken advantage of the fence having been swept away in the recent flashfloods due to torrential rains, sources said. Indian intelligence agencies said the training camp, located in the middle of a forest in Kacharban, had been declared out of bounds for PoK civilians, including shepherds who frequented the area for green pastures. Though opposite the Poonch sector, Pakistan conducts advanced training for militants at Bagh, Halanshumali, Padhar, Rawalakote, Kotli, Halan, Kaliar, Gulpur, Aliabad and Forwad Kahuta. The highly-fortified camp in Kacharban has become “very active” since August 18, intelligence sources said. Army did not ruled out possibility of terrorists entering from IB. “There is possibility that there was fresh infiltration from IB”, he told the reporters. Sources said that intelligence agencies have started investigation to identify those guides who were giving guidance to the terrorists. “It is believed that some local self-styled terrorist commanders were already camping near Hiranagar and they were giving directions to the terrorists who had infiltrated on Thursday morning”, sources said. After a gap of ten years, terrorists have struck Jammu region and it is believed that this is part of the new strategy of terrorists. On the direction of their mentors from across the borders, there terrorists have already executed such attacks in Kashmir Valley. These attacks were aimed at demoralizing security forces deployed in Kashmir Valley. Earlier terrorists and their supporters have been attacking security forces through agitational terrorism and this new strategy of selective attacks on security forces was another part of their new tactics.