SRINAGAR: Two Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militants holed up in an under construction multi-storey building in Srinagar’s Karan Nagar area were killed in the security forces’ final assault on Tuesday afternoon, 32 hours after the duo had made an abortive attempt to storm a nearby camp of the Central Reserve Police Force.
Inspector general of police (Kashmir range), Swayam Prakash Pani, announcing it at a press conference here said, “Both terrorists who were engaged in a gunfight with the security force since Monday morning have been neutralised.” He said that one CRPF jawan Muhammad Mujahid Khan, a resident of Arah district of Bihar, was killed and a J&K policeman Javid Ahmad was injured while fighting the militants. He added that the identity of the slain militants is being ascertained.
The militant duo had tried to storm the camp of the CRPF’s 23rd Battalion shortly before dawn on Monday, exactly the way a group of militants believed to be members of Jaish-e-Muhammad did at an Army station at Sanjwan in Jammu.
