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Ultras may have chemical weapons: Army
Tribune News Service

Jammu, April 30
Are the terrorists from Pakistan and Afghanistan operating in Jammu and Kashmir being armed with chemical weapons by their mentors?

Intelligence reports indicate that fresh group of terrorists infiltrating here might be equipped with chemical weapons.

A spokesman of the Udhampur-based Northern Command of the Army today said that the Army had over the past two to three months consistently received information that foreign terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir had been moving with suspicious-looking containers.

"Recent intelligence inputs have suggested that terrorists have been talking about the use of poisonous gas" he revealed.

These reports are of great significance in the light of the US concerns about the weapons of mass destruction falling in the hands of terrorists groups, he said.

According to reports, security forces engaged in anti-terrorists operations have been intercepting wireless conversations and orders which terrorist groups here were receiving from Pakistan.

Top military officers have indicated that the Pakistani terrorists were equipped with modern gadgets.

Meanwhile, the two terrorists killed by the security forces when they attacked the BSF headquarters at Bandipora in Kashmir valley on (April 25) have been identified as Mohammad, a resident of Saharanpur in Pakistan Punjab, and Mansoor, a resident of Karachi.

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