Forensics confirm only 4 Pathankot attackers
March 02, 2016 12:50
Forensic investigators have failed to find human bone or tooth fragments in a charred mass claimed to be the remains of a terrorist killed by the National Security Guard during the Jaish-e-Muhammad strike on the Pathankot airbase, official sources have said.
The absence of this material means that DNA evidence is unlikely to settle the debate over whether four terrorists were involved in the attack on Pathankot, as the National Investigation Agency and Intelligence Bureau believe, or six, as the NSG claimed.
In seven rounds of searches of the airmens billet which concluded last week, an NIA officer said, investigators had failed to find even small fragments of weapons, grenades, or human bones all of which would have supported the NSGs claim to have battled two terrorists, in addition to the four killed some distance away during the first hours of the raid.
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