Pathankot : A search operation was launched by Punjab Police and the Army after an abandoned bag containing Army fatigues was found here, a police official said on Monday. A local resident informed the police about the bag yesterday, following which the search operation was conducted in Pathankot city and Mamoon Cantonment here.
“We conducted a search operation along with Army officials here to look for any suspicious person,” the official said.
“Five shirts and two trousers were found in a wheat flour bag at a secluded place near the Defence Road here,” the official said.
In 2015, three heavily-armed terrorists wearing Army fatigues, had hijacked a car and stormed a police station in Dinanagar town of Gurdaspur district. They killed seven persons, including a Superintendent of Police, before they were gunned down.