NEW DELHI: Punjab's
Pathankot was put on alert on Monday after police found a suspicious bag near
Mamun Army cantonment last night, a police official said.
A local resident informed the police about the bag yesterday following which the search operation was conducted in Pathankot city and Mamoon Cantonment here.
Read this story in Bengali"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.
Last year, four terrorists who had sneaked in from across the border had
attacked the Pathankot Air Base on the intervening night of January 1 and 2, claiming the lives of seven security personnel.
(with PTI inputs)