SRINAGAR – Two militants holed up in a building in Srinagar’s Karan Nagararea were killed on Tuesday following an encounter lasting more than 30hours. The encounter began early last morning after two militants made afailed attempt to attack a CRPF camp.
Guards thwarted the attack forcing the militants to flee. Security forcescomprising Jammu and Kashmir Police and CRPF then tracked down themilitants and engaged them in a gunbattle. A CRPF constable, identified asMujahid Alam, was killed in the firing.
Security forces launched a final assault on the militants this morning.“Two militants have been killed. Arms and ammunition are recovered. OneCRPF jawan has been injured but is completely out of danger,” ANI quotedKashmir IGP SP Pani as saying in a press conference on Tuesday afternoon.
At the time of filing this report, combing operations in the Karan Nagararea were underway.
The encounter near the CRPF camp in Srinagar comes just two days after themilitant attack on Sunjuwan military station in Jammu in which six Armypersonnel and a civilian were killed. Two soldiers. including a JCO and ahavildar, were killed in the encounter. Later, Army commandos recovered thebodies of three more soldiers and a civilian from inside the residentialquarters.
Three militants were also killed during the gun-battle and arms, ammunitionand other material seized from them revealed that they owed allegiance toJaish-e-Mohammad (JeM).
Sending out a warning to Pakistan, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman onMonday evening blamed Masood Azhar’s JeM for the terror attack in Jammu andwarned Pakistan that it will pay for this misadventure, adding that thedemography of the cantonment and adjoining areas indicates the possibilityof local support to the terrorists.