India, May 8 -- The Ghaziabad district on Wednesday went ahead with its scheduled mock security drills, hours after the Indian Army carried out precision strikes on terror infrastructure at nine sites in Pakistan late Tuesday night. District officials said that although the drill was directed for a day, it will continue in the days to come.

Being conducted amid prevailing India-Pakistan tensions in the light of the deadly April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir, the mock drills were held in five high-rises and 10 schools.

District magistrate Deepak Meena said that power blackout was also done at five high-rises.

"We have directed that the drills should continue further so that more students and other volunteers get inputs ...