Pakistan launched a recent drone assault concentrating on 26 places — from Jammu and Kashmir to Gujarat — for the second night time on Friday, with defence sources saying the enemy’s makes an attempt to hit very important installations, together with airports and air bases, have been efficiently thwarted.
They stated the state of affairs was underneath shut and fixed watch.
Immediate motion was being taken wherever essential and residents, particularly these within the border areas, suggested to stay indoors, restrict pointless motion and strictly comply with security directions issued by native authorities, defence sources stated.
“Drones have been sighted at 26 places starting from (Jammu and Kashmir’s) Baramulla within the north to (Gujarat’s) Bhuj within the south, alongside each the Worldwide Border and the Line of Management with Pakistan. These embrace suspected armed drones posing potential threats to civilian and navy targets,” a supply stated.
The places embrace Baramulla, Srinagar, Awantipora, Nagrota and Jammu in J&Ok, Ferozepur, Pathankot and Fazilka in Punjab, Lalgarh Jatta, Jaisalmer and Barmer in Rajasthan, and Bhuj, Kuarbet and Lakhi Nala in Gujarat.
Regrettably, an armed drone focused a civilian space in Ferozepur, leading to extreme accidents to members of a neighborhood household, the officers stated, including the injured have been offered medical help and the world has been sanitised by safety forces.
“The Indian armed forces are sustaining a excessive state of alert, and all such aerial threats are being tracked and engaged utilizing counter-drone methods. The state of affairs is underneath shut and fixed watch, and immediate motion is being taken wherever essential,” a supply stated.
Whereas there isn’t a want for panic, heightened vigilance and precaution are important, the defence sources stated.
The most recent drone assault got here a day after India thwarted makes an attempt by the Pakistan navy to hit Indian navy installations utilizing drones and missiles.
The sky was lit up in Baramulla district because the Indian navy shot down Pakistani drones. Blasts had been heard and sirens sounded within the Jammu area and south Kashmir as many elements of the Union Territory plunged into darkness, officers stated.
In Srinagar, mosque loudspeakers had been used to convey to locals to change off their lights as a precautionary measure.
Officers stated the drones had been additionally engaged in Udhampur and Nagrota of Jammu and Kupwara in north Kashmir.
Amid all this, heavy cross-border shelling was underway alongside the Worldwide Border within the Suchetgarh and Ramgarh sectors of Jammu and Samba districts.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, in a publish on X, stated, “Intermittent sounds of blasts, in all probability heavy artillery, can now be heard from the place I’m.”
He additionally posted an image of the town in darkness with the caption: “Blackout in Jammu now. Sirens will be heard throughout the town.”
In one other publish, he stated, “It is my earnest enchantment to everybody in and round Jammu — please keep off the streets, keep at dwelling or on the nearest place you may comfortably keep at for the subsequent few hours. Ignore rumours, do not unfold unsubstantiated or unverified tales and we’ll get via this collectively.”
On Thursday night, Indian air defence items intercepted at the least eight missiles fired by Pakistan in the direction of the border areas of Jammu, together with the strategically necessary Jammu airport, defence sources had stated.
Likening the assault to the techniques utilized by Hamas, sources stated all “low cost” rockets directed on the Jammu area had been intercepted and neutralised by air defence items. The missiles had been geared toward key places, together with Satwari (Jammu airport), Samba, RS Pura, and Arnia.
A sudden energy outage had plunged Jammu metropolis into darkness following two loud explosions, doubtless ensuing from the interception of the intruding drones. Instantly after, sirens had been blared all through the town, alerting residents to hunt shelter.
The aerial objects had tried to strike the strategic Jammu airport and its surrounding areas, which home the military, air power, and paramilitary installations.
Pressure between the 2 neighbours soared after the Indian armed forces on Wednesday performed precision strikes concentrating on terror launchpads in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in response to the April 22 assault by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam by which 26 individuals, principally vacationers, had been killed.
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