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Firing near India's key ISRO facility

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

New Delhi, March 16, IRNA -- Two persons moving around in a suspicious manner near a key Indian Space Research Organization facility on the outskirts of the Bangalore city fired at security personnel in the wee hours Tuesday after which the guards retaliated but the duo escaped.

The security personnel challenged the two when they found them moving around in a suspicious manner. The duo fired at them with a small pistol, after which the security guards retaliated. The incident occurred between 3:30 am and 4:00 am, PTI reported quoting ISRO sources.

This ISRO facility houses the Indian Deep Space Network and tracking station for ISRO's satellite missions.

Security was in place and the attempt to attack the guards was foiled, S Satish, a spokesperson of the organization said.

Meanwhile, the Centre today sought a report from the Karnataka government in the wake of the firing at a key ISRO facility on the outskirts of Bangalore.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has asked for the sequence of events in the incident which happened in the wee hours today when two persons were moving around in a suspicious manner near the Indian Space Research Organisation centre housing projects relating to space research.

The Indian Deep Space Network, commissioned in 2008 at Byalalu village near Bangalore, is the ground segment for providing deep space support for India's first Lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1.

The technical facilities in IDSN include a 32-metre Deep Space Antenna, an 18-metre Antenna Terminal, an 11-metre Antenna Terminal, Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC) and a Technical Services complex.

The IDSN is the first of its kind project in India that provides ISRO the capability to handle deep space missions and also provides cross support to other deep space missions of external space agencies because of its inter-operable features and sophisticated capabilities.

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