3,000 people shifted ahead of interceptor missile test
March 14th, 2010 - 10:29 am ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )Bhubaneswar, March 14 (IANS) At least 3,000 people from six villages near a defence base in Orissa have been shifted to temporary camps as India plans to conduct an interceptor missile test Sunday.
The Advanced Air Defence missile (AAD) will be fired from the Wheeler Island off Dhamra coast in Bhadrak district. It will destroy an incoming missile fired from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur on sea in Balasore district.
“Officials have shifted about 3,000 people living within 2 km radius of the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur to temporary camps,” Balasore district Superintendent of Police Rajesh Kumar told IANS.
“We have also deployed about 120 armed policemen in the area and engaged two mobile patrolling units to maintain law and order and prevent entry of unauthorised persons to the area,” he said.
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