URI: Initial investigations into the terror attack on a highly-guarded army camp in Kashmir here have pointed towards several procedural lapses including lack of coordination between two guard posts.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA), meanwhile, was finishing documentation work in the case besides effecting seizures of material evidence from the scene of attack
The investigators probing the deadly attack in which 18 soldiers were killed have also found that the perimeter of the highly sensitive Brigade Headquarter of the Army was not properly fenced at several places, official sources said today.
The probe also pointed towards the possibility of the four terrorists involved in the attack having sneaked in from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) through Haji Peer Pass on the intervening night of September 16/17 and stayed put at village Sukhdar, overlooking the Brigade headquarter, they said.
Sukhdar village is located at a vantage point allowing an unhindered view of the layout of the army base and movement of personnel inside it.
The growth of wild grass and bushes around the perimeter of the brigade is seen as one of the factors that could have facilitated undetected movement of the terrorists close to the fencing, which was cut by the ultras to sneak inside the base, the sources said. (AGENCIES)
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