Gunfight in Gurdaspur: Terrorists lay siege to police station

Investigations being conducted at the Dinanagar police station a day after the Gurdaspur attack. (Aseem Bassi/HT Photo)

Updated on: Jul 28, 2015 1:43 PM IST

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Investigations being conducted at the Dinanagar police station a day after the Gurdaspur attack. (Aseem Bassi/HT Photo)

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Jammu and Kashmir Police personnel stop local vehicles at a security check-post. Security has been beefed up after Monday's terrorists attack at Dinanagar police station. (Nitin Kanotra/HT Photo)

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Indian army commandos joined police in fighting suspected militants who fired at a bus station and stormed into police barracks on the outskirts of a northern town bordering Pakistan early Monday. (AP Photo)

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An Indian army soldier holds an AK-47 assault rifle during a fight in the town of Dinanagar, Punjab. (AP Photo)

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Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal visiting the injured in the Gurdaspur operation at Amritsar medical college. Following the attack, Badal called off his meeting with Pakistani envoy Abdul Basit. (HT Photo)

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India tightened security along its border with Pakistan on Monday after terrorists dressed in army uniforms stormed a police station in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district. (HT Photo)

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At least four men, including two policemen were killed in the attack. Several others were injured. (HT Photo)

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The incident took place 11km away from Gurdaspur city — close to the India-Pakistan border — and 80km away from Amritsar. (HT Photo)

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A group of three to four attackers came in a white Maruti car after hijacking it from the Old Pathankot-Gurdaspur road and opened fire at the police station around 5.30am. (AFP Photo)

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Punjab police personnel take position during an encounter with armed attackers at the police station in Dinanagar town in Gurdaspur district. (AFP Photo)

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Five bombs were also found on a railway track in Punjab, suggesting a coordinated series of attacks around the time India is marking the anniversary of a near-war with Pakistan in northern Kashmir in 1999. (HT Photo)

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Army commandos and a Quick Response Team (QRT) were called in to tackle the situation. (HT Photo)

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Residents watch as security forces battle armed attackers at the police station in Dinanagar town, in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab. (AFP Photo)

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Punjab police's superintendent of police (detective) Baljit Singh died in the gunbattle with the terrorists. (HT Photo)

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Punjab Roadways driver Nanak Chand saved several lives when terrorists launched an attack here on Monday. The courageous driver drove towards the terrorists as they open fired at the bus. HT Photo

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Relatives and family members of SP (D) Baljit Singh, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Dinanagar, consoling his wife Kulwant Kaur at their residence in Kapurthala. HT Photo

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Punjab Police DGP Sumedh Singh Saini addressing press conference after the operation to flush out the militants got over. Sameer Sehgal/HT

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"It is too early to say from where they have come," Punjab Police chief Sumedh Singh Saini said on Monday after an 11-hour gunbattle left all three terrorists at a police complex here dead. Sameer Sehgal/HT

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People outside the Dinanagar police after operation ended in Gurdaspur. Sameer Sehgal/HT

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Anti-bomb squad searching rail tracks near Jalandhar railway station on Tuesday. (Pardeep Pandit/HT Photo)