New Delhi - Suspected terrorists fired seven rockets into Punjab's Amritsar district but there were no casualties, news reports said Saturday. The rockets were found on farmland in Attari sector along India's border with Pakistan early Saturday, IANS news agency reported quoting defense officials.
India's Border Security Force troopers responded by firing across the border into Pakistan with automatic weapons.
Himmat Singh, Punjab frontier inspector general of police, said no casualties were reported in the border area when five rockets landed near a village and two other missiles landed near a border post.
"Our troopers fired back. Senior officers have already reached the spot and investigations are on. We had a meeting with our Pakistani counterparts and have lodged a strong official protest," Singh said.
The Pakistani Rangers denied that any rockets were fired from their territory.
Indian officials suspect the rockets were fired by Pakistan-based terrorists. It was the third incidence of rockets being fired across the Indian border since July 2009.
Terrorists linked to Taliban and al-Qaeda in Pakistan attacked a police training center, located between Lahore city and the Wagah border post, about 12 kilometers west of Attari, in March 2009, killing 20 police personnel and injuring 150 others.
That incident raised concerns in India that Pakistan-based terrorists were operating close to the Indian border.
India has erected an electrified barbed-wire fence on its side of the 553-kilometer international border with Pakistan, from the area where the rocket blasts were heard early Saturday.
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/302812,rockets-land-in-india-near-border-with-pakistan.html.
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