New Delhi | The Indian Air Force is been put on high alert after its Air Strike in Pakistan occupied Kashmir where 12 IAF Mirage 2000 aircraft dropped 1000 kg bombs on the terror camps across the Line of Control (LOC) in Pakistan.
According to sources, the IAF is put on high alert all its air defence systems along the international border and LoC after an possiblity of an retaliatory action by Pakistan Air Force.
News Agency ANI quoting IAF sources had reported that 12 IAF Mirage Air Force jet on around 0330 hours struck a major terrorist camp across the LoC and completely destroyed the Balakot, Chakothi and Muzaffarabad terror launch pads across the LOC while the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) control rooms also destroyed.” The government sources had said that the initial assessment of the damage caused at the terror camp could be around 200 to 300 casualties.
The Air Strike by the Indian Air Force is termed as an revenge of the terror attack on the CRPF convoy where 40 CRPF personnel were killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district when a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist identified as Adil Ahmed rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the bus they were travelling in. More than 2,500 Central Reserve Police Force personnel, many of them returning from leave to rejoin duty in the Valley, were travelling in the convoy of 78 vehicles when they were ambushed on the Srinagar-Jammu highway at Latoomode in Awantipora.
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