North 24 Paraganas<\/span>4 minutes ago<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n A high-intensity mock drill involving the National Security Guard (NSG) was conducted at a hotel in Dhamakhali under Sandeshkhali Police Station in West Bengal\u2019s North 24 Parganas district, near the India-Bangladesh border.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The exercise simulated a terror and hostage situation, with armed terrorists shown as having abducted several tourists and held them captive inside a hotel.<\/p>\n Terror hostage scenario simulated inside hotel<\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n After receiving information about the simulated hostage crisis, Sandeshkhali Police alerted the NSG. A specialised NSG team was subsequently deployed to the location to carry out the rescue operation.<\/p>\n Commandos launch swift hostage rescue operation<\/strong><\/span> Using tactical equipment and advanced technology, NSG commandos entered the hotel premises and rescued the simulated hostages. The commandos also apprehended the simulated terrorists as part of the exercise.<\/p>\n Drill tests security forces preparedness<\/strong><\/span> The mock drill was conducted to assess and demonstrate the preparedness, coordination, and rapid-response capabilities of security agencies in dealing with potential terror attacks and hostage situations.<\/p>\n The exercise also focused on coordination between local police and specialised counter-terror forces during a high-risk emergency, particularly in a strategically sensitive area close to the international border.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" North 24 Paraganas4 minutes ago A high-intensity mock drill involving the National Security Guard (NSG) was conducted at a hotel in Dhamakhali under Sandeshkhali Police Station in West Bengal\u2019s North 24 Parganas district, near the India-Bangladesh border. The exercise simulated a terror and hostage situation, with armed terrorists shown as having abducted several tourists and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31921,31926,31923,24826,31930,23921,31922,31928,31918,31925,31920,31927,31924,31919,31929],"class_list":["post-35104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-basirhat-nsg-operation","tag-dhamakhali-hotel","tag-hostage-rescue-drill","tag-india-bangladesh-border","tag-india-bangladesh-border-security","tag-north-24-parganas-news","tag-nsg-commandos","tag-nsg-counter-terror-exercise","tag-nsg-mock-drill","tag-sandeshkhali-news","tag-sandeshkhali-nsg-mock-drill","tag-security-forces-mock-drill","tag-terror-mock-drill","tag-west-bengal-nsg-drill","tag-west-bengal-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/29\/4-21_1788004634.gif\")
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