On Wednesday, a man jumped into the lawmakers’ area of the lower house of India’s parliament, TV channels showed, in a major security breach on the 22nd anniversary of a deadly attack on the complex.
CNN News 18 showed a man wearing a black jacket jump from the visitors’ area into the lawmakers’ seating area, climbing over tables of lawmakers.
Two suspects were taken into custody following the security breach, the channel said citing police.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not in parliament at the time.
“On this day, India’s parliament has been attacked again,” lawmaker Karti Chidambaram told reporters outside parliament.
Gaurav Gogoi, another lawmaker, said one of the two suspects was shouting slogans. Other lawmakers said there was some kind of sound followed by smoke in the chambers.
More than a dozen people, including five gunmen, were killed in an attack on India’s parliament complex in 2001, which New Delhi blames on Pakistan-based militants.
