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2006-08-22 India-Pakistan

Indian police search for armed men near atomic plant

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Posted by Steve 2006-08-22 10:54|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 SURAT/NEW DELHI: A massive search operation was launched on Tuesday at Kakrapar Atomic Power Station near Surat after villagers reported seeing two armed men in its vicinity, but security forces found no intruders. The CISF, which is responsible for guarding all nuclear facilities, informed the home ministry that no persons were found in or around the Kakrapar station following an intensive search by its personnel and the Gujarat Police.

CISF chief S I S Ahmed, in his message to the home ministry, said "everything is clear and no one was found in the premises, which were completely safe", according to the ministry's spokesman.

Posted by Steve 2006-08-22 13:37|| 2006-08-22 13:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Immediately after villagers reported the presence of the two men to the authorities, state police and CISF troops launched a combing operation while commandos took position in the control room of the nuclear reactors.

S K Jain, chairman of Nuclear Power Corporation of India, who was in New Delhi, said the multi-layered security at the station was capable of dealing with any intrusion. The station, which has two 220MW plants, has protection systems to shut down the reactors in any eventuality, he said.

Posted by john 2006-08-22 16:45|| 2006-08-22 16:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Interestingly, an earlier report, now pulled, said that 2 armed men had been arrested in a restricted area.

Either it was an error, or these two fellows, presumably pakistani, have "disappeared" into the custody of Indian intelligence and are now undergoing some rather "rigorous" interrogation..

I expect that in a few weeks, the bodies of two "homeless" men will turn up at the cremation ghats on the banks of the yamuna

Posted by john 2006-08-22 17:56|| 2006-08-22 17:56|| Front Page Top

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