July 28, 2015 8:28 PM

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Gurdaspur attack: Punjab police says terrorists come from Pakistan

A day after the attack by heavily armed terrorists in Punjab's border district of Gurdaspur, Punjab Police has been able to establish that they had come from a place nearing the international border with Pakistan. Punjab Police Chief Sumedh Singh Saini told media in Gurdaspur today that the two Global Positioning System (GPS) devices recovered from their possession shows that they started from Dhusi Ban area which is near the border and came upto railway track to plant bombs and then moved further. However, Mr. Saini said that their identity has not yet been established as nothing of such kind has been found from their possession which can show their linkage with any terrorist group. At the same time, he said the inspection of the assailants bodies show that they were muslims. <br/><br/>The recovery of arms and ammunition shows that they were well equipped and the attack was well planned. They had fired over 200 rounds during the exchange of fire with security. AIR correspondent reports that three AK-47 rifles, 17 magazines, 85 live cartridges, a rocket and rocket launcher, grenades and two GPS systems were recovered from the place in Dinanagar police station where the terrorists were holed up. Seven grenades had been defused. <br/><br/>Police has also recovered five kilogram RDX planted at the Pathankot railway track with 2 detonators, batteries, wires and a night device. Meanwhile, three home guard jawans, Sukhdev Singh, Bodh Raj and Desraj who attained martyrdom during the gun fight, had been cremated with full state honours. Cremation of Superintendent of Police Baljit Singh is scheduled to be held tomorrow.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, train services on the Amritsar-Pathankot line, resumed today after thorough examination of the track. Five live bombs found by an alert trackman yesterday, were defused by the Army after a four-hour effort last night. Train services were disrupted after the bombs were recovered from the tracks, according to Divisional Railway manager of Firozpur division. The five live bombs were carefully wired to the railway tracks at a small bridge near Parmanand railway station, five km from Dinanagar, the scene of yesterday's terror attack, in which seven persons including a Superintendent of Police were killed.

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