A day after fidayeen attack, NIA team reaches Jammu

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) team on Sunday reached Sunjwan Army camp in Jammu to take stock of the situation after the fidayeen (suicide) attack by Jaish-e-Mohammad militants.

Sources told DH that the NIA team reached Jammu from Delhi on Sunday afternoon.

"On their arrival in Jammu, the NIA team had a brief discussion with senior Army officers in the area. Before initiating the probe, the team will look into all aspects as how the heavily armed terrorists managed to sneak into a heavily guarded military installation," they said and added that the NIA sleuths are likely to talk to some of the injured soldiers.

The central probe agency reached Jammu a day after the deadly pre-dawn terror attack, in which 10 people, including five soldiers, four militants and a civilian were killed, while 11 others injured.

A senior police officer said the NIA will fix the responsibility as for how the attackers managed to infiltrate the highly guarded military installation.

"Besides, the NIA's job is to get evidence and prepare a dossier which could be presented to the international community to expose the Pakistani hand in the attack," he said.

"The attack is a major lapse. How did the militants manage to reach Sunjuwan has to be investigated. The nearest border fence in RS Pura sector is at least 35 kilometer from the Sunjuwan Military Station," the officer said.

"During the investigations, the NIA would try to ascertain the area from where the militants had come and the route taken by them to reach the Military station. The possibility is also that militants might have travelled from south Kashmir to carry out the attack. but how they managed to reach Jammu despite such strict security is a cause of concern," he revealed.

Army Chief General Bipin Rawat is also in Jammu to review the security situation. He had landed in the city of temples on Saturday evening, hours after heavily armed fidayeen managed to enter the army camp.