Suspected terrorists attacked an Air Force base in the border district of Pathankot in Punjab early on Saturday morning, triggering a fierce gunfight a day after an alarm was sounded in the state over the assault of a top police officer by unidentified men.
Police have cordoned off the area after gunshots rang out of the Air Force station adjoining Dhira village.
he attack came a day after a senior Punjab police officer and two others were allegedly abducted by a group of men in army fatigues and beaten up before being released near Pathankot.
In July last year, heavily armed men in army fatigues sprayed bullets on a moving bus and stormed the Dinanagar police station in Gurdaspur district bordering Pakistan, killing six people and injuring eight others.
Read: Punjab on alert after cop thrashed by men in army uniform