Barely a number of hours after the drone assault on the Air Force Station in Jammu, a suspected drone was reportedly sighted over Kaluchak navy station on the outskirts of town on Sunday evening.
Sources mentioned that the sentry deployed at a publish there fired some rounds on it, nevertheless it disappeared. Army officers, nevertheless, are but to substantiate the incident.
In a first-of-its-kind terrorist assault within the nation, two explosive gadgets have been dropped from a suspected drone on the Indian Air Force Station in Jammu early on Sunday. Two back-to-back explosions, which based on sources occurred at 1.37 am and 1.42 am, injured two Air Force personnel.
The roof of a constructing was broken, however the explosive gadgets missed the plane hangar close by. No helpful gear was broken within the assault.
The Air Force Station is about 14-15 km from the closest level on the International Border (IB) with Pakistan. The farthest {that a} drone from Pakistan has thus far come on the Indian facet of the IB and Line of Control (LoC) within the Jammu area is 12 km.
Sources within the navy intelligence mentioned that out of the 2 injured air drive personnel — a warrant officer and an airman — neither has confirmed the reason for the blast and whether or not they heard the sound of a drone previous to the explosions.
Officials, nevertheless, mentioned the potential of the drone being managed from Indian territory couldn’t be dominated out.
The use of a drone to mount a terrorist assault marks the start of a brand new safety risk for the nation. The risk from armed drones was mentioned by the Indian safety institution some years in the past. The assault on the Air Force Station came about a number of hours after Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested an alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba operative with an improvised explosive machine (IED) weighing practically 5 kg in Jammu.
The NIA and NSG groups are conducting investigations into the matter.
After the assault, a excessive alert has been sounded by the military and air drive in key navy stations and air drive stations throughout the area. Bomb disposal squads have been stationed at choose navy stations from the place they are often dispatched wherever required if want be.
