Gurdaspur attackers had come using Ravi river

Punjab police chief Sumedh Singh Saini said 11 unused bombs had been recovered and five of them had been defused.

Three AK-47 rifles, 17 magazines, 55 cartridges, one Rocket launcher, three hand grenades, <g data-gr-id="44">bullet proof</g> jackets, night vision device and heap of unused bullets were recovered from the site of the encounter, he said.

Giving details of the probe, the DGP said the terrorists had taken the route from Dhussi Bandh (Ravi river) right along the International Border to the railway track where they planted bombs and then came to Dina Nagar. The bombs were detected on time and defused.

"As per their GPS system, they first planted bombs on <g data-gr-id="62">railway</g> track before snatching a car from a civilian and then gained entry into the police station of Dina Nagar," he said.

"Inspection of the bodies show they were Muslims," he said.

In Delhi, official sources said the probe indicates that the terrorists, <g data-gr-id="46">suspectedly</g> belonging to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, had entered India through <g data-gr-id="47">Bamiyal</g> village and planned to target <g data-gr-id="48">Gurudaspur</g> civil lines also <g data-gr-id="53">besides</g> the police station.

The GPS, used by travellers to reach their destinations, was switched on by the terrorists after they crossed over into India, the sources said.

While the flow of the river was very fast, security agencies believe that the attackers used a canal to enter India and switched on the GPS.

The tracking point of one of the two GPS systems with the terrorists showed Talwandi point, Parmanand village and Dina Nagar. The other GPS system had <g data-gr-id="45">Gurudaspur</g> Civil Lines marked, implying that the area was also on their target list.

The terrorists were caught on a CCTV camera whose footage surfaced today. The 14-second video footage shows three men, wearing Army fatigues, having big backpacks and carrying AK assault rifles, walking down the road at 4:55 a.m. yesterday.

The images were captured by a CCTV camera placed at a shop at Taragarh intersection in Dinanagar area, just before they entered this Punjab town bordering Pakistan, SSP Gurdaspur G S Toor said today. 

Gurpreet Singh, Senior Superintendent of Police, Gurdaspur, said the bodies of the militants have been kept at the civil hospital and their weapons were being examined.

An alert has been sounded along the international border in Punjab and Jammu.

Meanwhile, images of the trio have been captured on a CCTV camera placed by a shopkeeper outside his shop at Taragarh intersection just before they entered Dina Nagar town.

The 14-second video footage shows three men, wearing Army fatigues walking down the road at 4:55 a.m. with AK-47 assault rifles in their hands, SSP Gurdaspur, G S Toor said.

Earlier today, police defused two hand grenades recovered from the encounter scene at Dina Nagar police station complex.

The terrorists had made every attempt to conceal their identities and even removed markings from their clothes including underwears. They were not carrying any food items except for some loose dry fruits. The terrorists were carrying three AK 47 rifles, several Chinese-made grenades, besides 10 magazines with more than 200 rounds of ammunition.

Seven people including Superintendent of Police (Detective) Baljeet Singh were killed by the terrorists before they were eliminated by the commandos of the Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) of Punjab police in an operation that lasted 12 hours.