Pathak said that there had been no intelligence inputs on the attack. “For last 20 years, no incident had happened in this area, it was a relatively safe region,” he added.
The Border Security Force (BSF) on Thursday said that there had been no intelligence inputs of any attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district and it was considered a relatively safe region.
“Two of our men got martyred, 14 got injured out of which one is still critical,” BSF Director General D.K. Pathak told media here.
“Only one BSF jawan was armed in the bus which was attacked. If our jawan had not neutralised the militant then the militant would have caused mayhem. The way he handled the situation is worth praise. It was due to him that many lives were saved.”
Pathak said that there had been no intelligence inputs on the attack.
“For last 20 years, no incident had happened in this area, it was a relatively safe region,” he added.
Giving an insight into the security arrangements in the area, he said: “We keep changing our deployment patten for security reasons.”
For the first time after the 2008 Mumbai attack, Indian security forces on Wednesday claimed to have captured a Pakistani attacker shortly after militants killed two BSF troopers in Jammu and Kashmir.
Police officials said the young attacker, identified as Usman alias Qasim Khan, hailed from Faislabad in Pakistan and was linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group believed to have carried out the horrific 2008 Mumbai attack.
Earlier on Thursday, BSF Inspector General Rakesh Kumar said at a media conference in Jammu that its convoy was not the target of the attackers on the Jammu-Srinagar highway on Wednesday.
“Our convoy was not the target of the terrorists. They were waiting for some other target when our vehicles reached the spot.”