Punjab's Pathankot on high alert after suspected terrorists sighted in army fatigues

Security forces on Monday put the city of Pathankot in Punjab on high alert after a local claimed to have given a lift to two suspected terrorists.

A massive search operation has been launched by police in Pathankot to hunt them down. Police have set up check posts and security has been beefed up in the area. The armed suspicious men were in Army fatigue.

The local claimed that he gave lift to two men last night. The duo got down at a place nearby Kathua region in neighbouring Jammu and Kashmir, the police said.

"We are on alert and the matter is being investigated. A local told us that he gave lift to two youths. The local felt that the duo could be terror suspects as they were apparently carrying weapons and got down at a place nearby Kathua," Pathankot SSP Vivek Sheel Soni said.

"At this stage, we are treating the two as possible suspects and proceeding accordingly," he said.

Dinanagar in Gurdaspur and the Air Force base in Pathankot were attacked by terrorists in July 2015 and January 2016, respectively.