Salwinder Singh, the Punjab police officer who says he was abducted by the terrorists who attacked the Pathankot air base, told NDTV today that he instantly knew his abductors were terrorists as they had AK-47 guns and wore military jackets.
"I knew right away that these were terrorists...They had AK-47 guns and they threatened to shoot us...They were speaking in Urdu, Hindi," said the police officer, who was interrogated for about six hours by the National Investigation Agency or NIA on Monday.
"If I had a gun, maybe I would have fought against them, become martyred...There were four, five people with arms, how could I have done anything?" he said today, describing how he and two other people in the car with him were pushed down and told that they would be shot if they spoke up.
"They snatched our telephones and tied up our hands and legs...taped our mouths," Mr Singh said today.
The terrorists entered the base in two groups. After many hours of gun battle, the National Security Guard (NSG) said yesterday that five terrorists had been killed. The body of a sixth terrorist is believed to be under the rubble of the building they hid in at the base, sources said.
Combing operations are still on, but sources say there are unlikely to be any more terrorists hidden at the base.
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