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| Pathankot Braveheart Who Took 6 Bul |
| Pathankot Braveheart Who Took 6 Bullets, Kept Fighting
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| INDIA
, 7-January-2016
11:50:41 AM |
| The calendar had just turned - it was the early hours of January 2. A helicopter with thermal imagers was getting ready to take-off and scan the Pathankot Air Base based on an alert that the high-value military asset was to be targeted by terrorists.
Within a few minutes of being air borne, the thermal imagers beamed down images of four suspects. They were first spotted in the dense jungle at the rear of the Mechanical Transport Area in the 2000-acre compound. Roughly 45 minutes later, the Mi-35 attack helicopter that was flying over the base with thermal sensors would beam back pictures to ground which showed the terrorist had moved just a few meters from their earlier location - to store huts of the Mechanical Transport base.
"They were moving slowly, to avoid any detection," a senior IAF official told NDTV.
At about 3 am, 12 Garud Commandos were deployed. Three teams of "buddy" pairs were deployed outside the Mechanical Transport Wing to prevent the suspects from moving.
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