Terror attack not to affect flag lowering ceremony at border: BSF
Amritsar, July 27: 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.
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Two
terrorists
killed
in
Gurdaspur
attack
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.
IANS