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War sirens installed in Jammu
Pak constructs spring top bunkers along LoC

Jammu, June 3
In view of the heightened tension on the Indo-Pak border, the Jammu administration has installed 15 war sirens in different parts of the city and its outskirts to warn the people of any aerial attack by Pakistani forces in case a war breaks out between the two nations.

Official sources said here this afternoon that 15 war sirens had been installed in the key areas of the city as well as on the outskirts to enable the residents to flee if Pakistani warplanes attacked the city. “Among the key areas where these sirens have been installed are Jammu airport, Canal power station, Nagrota and Galadni power station.”

Poonch town, which witnessed Pakistani mortar shelling, is also gearing up to meet any challenge with civil defence authorities installing a war siren.

In the Samba town the lone war siren has been re-activated by the local authorities. The town has about 50 civil defence wardens who have trained about 7,00 volunteers, including scores of women.

Meanwhile, the Pakistan army has constructed nearly 200 “spring top bunkers” across the Line of Control (LoC) and has been building more of them in the Dras, Kargil, Uri, Tangdhar, Machil, Keran, Poonch, Rajouri and Akhnoor sectors along the LoC since the past one week to reduce the vulnerability of their frontline bunkers.

Highly-placed security said here this afternoon that ever since the troop build-up began on both sides of the International Boundary (IB) and the LoC, commandos of the Pakistan army’s elite Special Services Group (SSG) has been assigned the task of constructing the spring top bunkers on a warfooting in view of the heightened tensions on the borders.

Sources said the bunkers had heat-resistant and shock-absorbing springs in them, so that whenever a mortar shell hit it, the same would ricochet and fall elsewhere and explode. UNI