Intel-igent call: NSG commandos were rushed to Pathankot before attack

Just hours before terrorists struck the Indian Air Force base at Pathankot in the wee hour of Saturday, security agencies had swung into action and rushed a crack team of National Security Guards, who acted on advance intelligence to thwart the terror attack on a defence installation in the area. Security deployed outside #Pathankot Air Force Station Five terrorists and three security personnel have been killed in the terror attack on the Pathankot Air Force base in Punjab on Saturday morning. A battery of 50 NSG commandos, led by a major-general, was flown in a special aircraft from Delhi to Pathankot on Friday night after security officials connected the dots on an incident earlier in the day in which five armed men in army fatigues had waylaid a Punjab police official near Pathankot, and concluded that four to six heavily-armed terrorists were on the loose. Based on information shared by police official and injured person and some “ definite inputs”, security agencies had concluded by Friday evening that the kidnappers were heavily-armed terrorists on a “suicidal mission” to attack a specific target, top security sources told Hindustan Times.