Highway security concerns intensified across northern transit routes after unidentified assailants hurled heavy stones at a long-distance passenger bus heading toward Jammu and Kashmir as it traversed Punjab’s arterial highway network. The violent incident marks the second targeted attack on Kashmir-bound commercial passenger vehicles within forty-eight hours, following a nearly identical stone-pelting assault reported along a highway section in neighboring Haryana.
Witness accounts indicated that masked individuals concealed near roadside shrubbery hurled projectiles at the passenger coach as it navigated an unlit bypass, shattering multiple side window panes and causing minor lacerations among seated passengers. The bus driver maintained vehicle control and drove directly to a nearby police station, where highway patrol units mobilized to inspect the damaged bus and initiate local combing operations.
Punjab Police established dedicated highway patrol checkpoints and increased vehicular surveillance along sensitive road sectors to safeguard interstate passenger transit. Interstate police coordination cells in Punjab and Haryana began sharing investigative intelligence to ascertain whether the sequential attacks represent organized mischief intended to disrupt communal harmony along interstate transit corridors.
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