Police sounded high alert in Ramanathapuram district

Ramanathapuram, Dec 27 (UNI) A high alert was sounded by the police in Ramanathapuram district in view of assassination of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Mrs.Benazir Bhutto in a suicide bomber attack in Rawalpindi, today.

Police personnel were deployed at vantage points and vehicular checkups were intensified.

Surveillance on the entire coastal belt of the district was also intensified, a police official said.

The police were maintaining round-the-clock vigil in the district and check posts were alerted to keep maximum vigil, he added.

UNI