Special Forces With Anti-Drone Tech For G20 Meet In Kashmir

A senior police officer told NDTV that special forces with anti-drone tech were deployed for the G20 meet in Kashmir after five soldiers who were traveling in a truck carrying food for Iftar were killed in a terror attack last week.

A week after the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch last week, the Home Ministry will send a team to the Union Territory to review the security situation ahead of the G20 meeting scheduled there.

Five soldiers who were travelling in a truck, carrying food for Iftar, were killed in the terror attack last week.

"The focus of the discussions is going to be a thorough degree review of the security arrangements being put into place. Intelligence inputs about the threat of vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, or VBIED, and other types of threats," a senior police officer told NDTV, adding a VBIED was also likely used in the Poonch attack.

There are an estimated 30 terrorists active in Kashmir valley, which is an all-time low, Additiona...

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