‘Terror attack not to affect flag lowering ceremony at border’

‘Terror attack not to affect flag lowering ceremony at border’

IANSUpdated: Friday, May 31, 2019, 11:52 PM IST
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Indian Punjab police personnel take position during an encounter with armed attackers at the police station in Dinanagar town, in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab state on July 27, 2015. Indian security forces were battling an armed attack on a police station near the Pakistan border in which at least five people have been killed. AFP PHOTO/ NARINDER NANU |

Amritsar: Visitors will continue to witness the flag lowering ceremony at the international border near here despite a terror attack in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district, a top BSF official said here on Monday.

“The visitors would be allowed to witness the flag lowering ceremony as usual,” Border Security Force (BSF) deputy inspector general, Amritsar range, M.F. Farooqui told IANS.

At least five people were killed and 10 injured in the district’s Dinanagar town when heavily armed terrorists wearing army fatigues hijacked a car, peppered the bus stand with bullets and stormed a police station — shattering two decades of calm in the state.

Over 10,000 visitors converge at the Wagah-Attari border every day to watch the drill performed by the BSF troopers and Pakistan Rangers before sunset.

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