<img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/48250556.cms" />Top security officials fear more terror strikes as many <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=militancy">militants</a> may have crossed the de-facto border from Pakistan, a day after <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Gurdaspur">terrorists attack Gurdaspur</a>, killing seven people, including four policemen. 
 
The security personnel saw similarities between the Gurdaspur attack and attacks in Jammu area in May. 
 
"The same pattern is being repeated. They infiltrate at night, hijack a vehicle and then attack a police station. Now we have to very careful about chapter two, like in May in Samba and Kathua when they divided into two groups. There was a 24-hours gap before the second group attempted an attack," a top security forces official told Economic Times. 
 
Security has been tightened and all military schools in the area have been shut. 
 
Five explosives were found on railway tracks. 
 
"All the five bombs of the railway track are elaborately wired in an IED kind of an arrangement. They are still to be neutralised and are of a highly complex mechanism. We suspect this has been done by a different group as it is well north of the police station," a top official told ET. 
 
The official further told the financial daily that the pattern of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=terrorists+attack">attacks</a> clearly point to a Pakistan trained module working in the Jammu area. 
 
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Top security officials fear more Gurdaspur like terror attempts

<img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/48239650.cms" /> The terrorists who waged war on Punjab are reckoned to have sneaked in from Pakistan through the border between <keyword id="2971285" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Jammu-and-Pathankot">Jammu and Pathankot</keyword> or <keyword id="2971286" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Chak-Hira">Chak Hira</keyword> in Jammu district to launch the assault. 
 
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Union+Home+Ministry">Union Home Ministry</a> sources said the terrorists may have entered into India at around midnight and hit the highway using Paharpur road, around 15 kms from the border to indulge in a killing spree that left six dead including an officer of the Punjab police. 
 
The terrorists involved in today's attacks wore <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Army">Army</a> uniforms and reached Parmanand village on the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Jammu+and+Kashmir+">Jammu and Kashmir </a>border and attempted to hijack a tempo at 5.30 AM. The tempo driver managed to flee. 
 
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Gurdaspur
strike - Militants may have sneaked in from Pakistan

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Security forces on Monday killed all four terrorists, who carried out a series of planned attacks in Punjab’s <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Gurdaspur+">Gurdaspur</a> district, according to Reuters. The gun battle between the security forces and terrorists continued for more than ten hours. 
 
According to police, they heard terrorists shouting 'Allah hu Akbar' (God is great) before the start of the intense gunfight, indicating the assault was a suicide attack. 
 
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 The <keyword id="6389314" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Militants">militants</keyword> wearing army uniform went on a rampage attacking a bus, a health centre and a police station in the morning. At least six people were killed in the attack, including <keyword id="95863" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Punjab-Police">Punjab Police</keyword> SP (detective) Baljeet Singh. 
 
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 The terrorists first struck a bus in Dinanagar at around 5 a.m., injuring four passengers. According to police, the militants also shot dead a roadside vendor near Dinanagar bypass before entering the <keyword id="2970347" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Dinanagar-police">Dinanagar police</keyword> station where they injured five policemen. 
 
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Attacks on security installations by militants dressed as army men or police are very common in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Jammu+and+Kashmir">Jammu and Kashmir</a>, but Monday's was the first such assault in Punjab in 13 years, according to data from the <keyword id="52011" type="CITY" weightage="80" keywordseo="South-Asia">South Asia</keyword> Terrorism Portal, which tracks militant violence. 
 
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Meanwhile, Home Minister <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Rajnath+Singh+">Rajnath Singh</a> has said that the country will give a befitting reply. "We will not be the first to strike, but if we are hit, we will give a befitting reply. We want peace with <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Pakistan+Navy">Pakistan</a>, but not at the cost of national honour," he said. 
 
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The minister said that he would make a statement over the attack in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Parliament+">Parliament</a> tomorrow after the Opposition created a ruckus in Parliament. 
 
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In a related development, five live bombs were also found on Amritsar-Pathankot railway track. 
 
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Gurdaspur terror attack: Operation over, all terrorists killed

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Security forces on Monday killed a terrorist and injured another during a gun battle, which is going on for the past nine hours in Punjab’s <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Gurdaspur+">Gurdaspur</a> district. Four heavily armed militants wearing army uniform went on a rampage attacking a bus, a health centre and a police station in the morning. 
 
Punjab Police SP (detective) Baljeet Singh was martyred while fighting the terrorists, who struck the bus in Dinanagar at around 5 a.m., injuring four passengers. 
 According to police, the militants also shot dead a roadside vendor near Dinanagar bypass before entering the <keyword id="2970347" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Dinanagar-police">Dinanagar police</keyword> station where they severely injured five policemen. 
 
Meanwhile, Home Minister <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Rajnath+Singh+">Rajnath Singh</a> has said that the country will give a befitting reply. "We will not be the first to strike, but if we are hit, we will give a befitting reply. We want peace with <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Pakistan+Navy">Pakistan</a>, but not at the cost of national honour," he said. 
 
The Home Minister also said that he would make a statement over the attack in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Parliament+">Parliament</a> tomorrow after the Opposition created a ruckus in <keyword id="6354721" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="parliament">Parliament</keyword>. 
 
 In a related development, five live bombs were found on Amritsar-Pathankot railway track and the train services on the route have been suspended. 
 The Home Ministry said that an alert has been sounded along the border with <keyword id="3001" type="COUNTRY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Pakistan">Pakistan</keyword>. Army was called in from Pathankot and the whole area has been cordoned off. 
 
Quick Reaction Teams, bomb squads and a heavy police contingent including senior officers have been deployed in the area which lies close to the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Indo-Pakistan+">Indo-Pakistan</a> border. 
 
According to official sources, the forces' strategy was to minimise casualties and to capture some of the terrorists alive. 
 
Though soldiers carrying shoulder-fired rocket launchers and other artillery were present at the spot, security agencies had opted not to use these till absolutely necessary. 
 
 
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