Uri attacks: Probe finds 'procedural lapses', lack of coordination between two guard posts at Army camp

Initial investigations by the National Investigation Agency into the terror attack at the Army base in Uri along the Line of Control have found several procedural lapses including lack of coordination between two guard posts. The NIA, which is finishing documentation work in the case besides effecting seizures of material evidence from the scene of 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 through Haji Peer Pass on the intervening night of September 16 and 17 and stayed put at village Sukhdar, overlooking the Brigade headquarter, they said. The initial probe has also pointed towards the failure of two manned guard posts, located barely 150 feet from each other, to detect the intrusion inside the base by the terrorists, they said, adding it could have been due to lack of coordination between the two guard posts.