Indian Navy was put on highest alert in Mumbai after two school children claimed that they saw suspicious movement near Uran naval base. The students said that “they they saw five suspected persons in black uniform wholly covered and carrying long weapon and heavy sac bag.”

Police said that “two school children claimed that they saw a group of 5-6 men dressed in black carrying arms near the navy base. The student of UES school in Uran first informed the principal following which the police was alerted.”

The police have confirmed combing a part of the Uran area of Navi Mumbai to verify suspicious looking men seen by the students. “Two students have informed that they have seen suspicious men in Uran. While one student has claimed of spotting one person, the other has claimed to have seen five. Post the information, multiple agencies are probing it,” said DGP Satish Mathur.

State alert was ordered primarily for two reasons; first, there is an ammunition depot near the spot where the children sighted the suspicious looking men, second, INS Abhimanyu too is close to the spot.

Heavily armed militants of the Lashkar-e-Taiba had killed over 150 people in one of the worst terror attacks in Mumbai in 2008. The attack lasted for three days before the Indian forces eliminated the nine terrorists and caught alive one, named Ajmal Kasab.

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BY M. DIVYA SRI