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

The student of UES school in Uran first informed the principal and after that police had been alerted.

The police has confirmed combing a part of the Uran area of Navi Mumbai to verify suspicious looking men seen by the students. DGP Satish Mathur said, “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”.

State 1 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 is also very 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.

Marine commandos MARCOS have been deployed at the Uran Navy base. Mumbai police have put up nakabanbdis across the city and have reviewing the situation.

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By Prakriti Neogi