By IANS
New Delhi : Soon after the terrorist attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) base camp in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur town Tuesday, in which seven personnel were killed, the paramilitary force sounded an alert across all its bases in the country against similar terror strikes.
“We have sounded an alert at our bases across the country after the terror attack on one of our bases in Uttar Pradesh,” said A.P. Meshwari, Inspector General (Operations) of the CRPF.
Speaking to reporters, Meshwari denied reports that the CRPF did not pay “due attention” to an intelligence alert on a possible terror attack.
“It’s is not that we are not on alert. It is due to our alertness that the terrorists could not penetrate the second line of defence and enter the Group Centre in Rampur,” he said.
He said the militants managed to flee taking advantage of pre-dawn darkness.
Seven CRPF personnel and a civilian were killed in the pre-dawn attack by four masked terrorists at a CRPF camp in Rampur town, 300 km from Lucknow.
The attackers were believed to be from the Lashker-e-Taiba, which is based in Pakistan and active in the Islamic separatist campaign in Jammu and Kashmir, police sources said.
The CRPF, the central paramilitary force, has more than 200 battalions with a total strength of 260,000 troopers and officials.