Yogeshwar Dutt condemns terrorist attack on Srinagar BSF camp, calls terrorism ‘cancer’

BSF Camp was attacked early morning on Tuesday. (Express Photo by Shuaib Masoodi)

Yogeshwar Dutt, winner of bronze medal in freestyle wrestling at 2012 London Olympics, called the terrorist attack on a BSF camp in Srinagar as “madness”. Dutt, who has condemned terror attacks in the past as well, compared these attacks to “cancer”. He also questioned the motives of the terrorists.

In a tweet on Tuesday, Dutt said that terror attacks have become common and have spread across the world like a cancer. He also asked if ‘terrorists wanted to live alone on the earth.’

“Terrorist attack have become common thing and it has spread to the whole world like a cancer. What to these people want? Do they want to stay alone on this planet? Die or kill? Madness,” Dutt wrote in his tweet.

आतंकी हमला आम बात हो गयी है,सारे विश्व मे ये कैन्सर जड़ जमा चुका है।क्या चाहते है आख़िर ये?अकेले रहेंगे सारी धरती पर?मर जाए या मार दे?पागलपन http://t.co/nIjE211KhV

— Yogeshwar Dutt (@DuttYogi) 3 October 2017

Early morning on Tuesday, suspected fidayeen attacked the Border Security Force’s 182nd Battalion camp near the Srinagar International Airport in which three BSF jawans were injured. Though there is no official confirmation but reports said that a terrorist has also been killed.

Entry at the Srinagar airport was barred for civilians after the attack and flights scheduled to land have also been cancelled/diverted.