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Pathankot: The terrorists came back to kill me, but I was gone, says Gurdaspur SP

| | Jan 05, 2016, at 05:58 pm
Chandigarh, Jan 5 (IBNS) Gurdaspur Superintendent of Police Salwinder Singh, who was abducted by the terrorists who attacked the Pathankot air base on Jan 2 but was not killed, leading to controversies on his role to alert authorities, said the gunmen had come back to kill him when they understood he was a cop.

Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists based in Pakistan on Jan 2 targetted an Indian air base at Pathankot in Punjab, killing seven Indian security men. Five militants were gunned down too while a sixth's body is missing.

The SP said he was returning from a temple along with his jeweller friend and cook when their car was waylaid on the Pathankot-Jammu highway and they were taken hostages for a while by the Pakistan based Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists.

Speaking to media, the SP, who has been quizzed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and been in doubt for surviving the terrorists despite being kidnapped by them, said
the terrorists were carrying AK-47 guns and had threatened to kill them. 

 
"It was night and we had taken a short route. A police patrol also checked us. I was returning from a temple, when we were intercepted, we were abducted. They stopped us, asked us to switch off the lights. They then taped my mouth and tied my hands in the back."

"There were four five of them. They left us in jungles after nearly an hour, and later when they realized that I am an SP they came back to kill me after speaking to their contacts in Pakistan. But I was gone by then.

They took both my mobiles," he recounted.

They were speaking in Urdu mostly, besides Hindi, said the SP.

The terrorists had abandoned the hijacked SUV of the cop in a village in Himachal Pradesh.

The SP said he has duly informed police about the incident and he knew they were terrorists.

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