<p>Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has sought a report from the Indian Air Force (IAF) on how militants managed to enter the high-security airbase.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Initial analysis of events at the IAF headquarters point the fingers towards a water canal, which breached the 23-km long perimeter wall of the front line airbase that witnessed action in 1971 war with Pakistan.<br /><br />The air station currently houses MiG-21 fighter jets besides Mi-25 and Mi-35 helicopter gunships. Close to 1500 people live inside the air station, which also has a terminal for civilian flights. The base has five entry gates, four of which remained closed. The fifth one is the main gate.<br /><br /> It is located in the more populated civilian side of the air station. <br /><br />IAF officials say terrorists did not enter from that side; otherwise the casualty would have been much more.<br /><br />This narrows down the suspected entry point, somewhere close to the canal, which ran parallel to the boundary wall before taking a turn to enter the premise.<br /><br /> Once the operations are over, IAF will check if the ultras used the canal as their entry point or sneaked through a hole in the wall.<br /><br />Another theory that terrorists may have entered the base even before the alert was sounded would also be examined critically once the operations are over.<br /><br />Agencies suspect there were at least six terrorists and they were divided into two groups – one of four and the other with minimum two. <br /><br />The first group were killed on Saturday while the members of the second group fought for almost 60 hours.<br /><br />The security of military installations is also set to be reviewed besides a relook at the training of the Defence Security Corps personnel and military police personnel.<br /> </p>
<p>Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has sought a report from the Indian Air Force (IAF) on how militants managed to enter the high-security airbase.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Initial analysis of events at the IAF headquarters point the fingers towards a water canal, which breached the 23-km long perimeter wall of the front line airbase that witnessed action in 1971 war with Pakistan.<br /><br />The air station currently houses MiG-21 fighter jets besides Mi-25 and Mi-35 helicopter gunships. Close to 1500 people live inside the air station, which also has a terminal for civilian flights. The base has five entry gates, four of which remained closed. The fifth one is the main gate.<br /><br /> It is located in the more populated civilian side of the air station. <br /><br />IAF officials say terrorists did not enter from that side; otherwise the casualty would have been much more.<br /><br />This narrows down the suspected entry point, somewhere close to the canal, which ran parallel to the boundary wall before taking a turn to enter the premise.<br /><br /> Once the operations are over, IAF will check if the ultras used the canal as their entry point or sneaked through a hole in the wall.<br /><br />Another theory that terrorists may have entered the base even before the alert was sounded would also be examined critically once the operations are over.<br /><br />Agencies suspect there were at least six terrorists and they were divided into two groups – one of four and the other with minimum two. <br /><br />The first group were killed on Saturday while the members of the second group fought for almost 60 hours.<br /><br />The security of military installations is also set to be reviewed besides a relook at the training of the Defence Security Corps personnel and military police personnel.<br /> </p>
