Gun barrels have begun to outnumber beer bottles on the otherwise merrily buzzing beaches of Goa, as the state slipped into Christmas mode with armed bunkers on beaches where khaki clad policemen rubbed shoulders with bare-bodied tourists.
Goa will be drastically shorn of its trademark revelry this year, with a blanket ban on beach parties from December 23 to January 5. According to the police, such parties held in open areas are vulnerable targets for a possible terror attack, which repeated intelligence inputs have warned of.
More than 5,000 personnel including about 700 paramilitary troops, who have been specially requisitioned from the central government, have already been deployed throughout Goa, with the coastal strip accounting for a majority of these forces..
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