Five Central Reserve Police Force personnel and two militants were killed in a suicide attack on a CRPF camp close to Police Public School in Bemina area of Srinagar in Kashmir valley on Wednesday.
Two militants, posing as local cricket players, engaged CRPF men in a ‘friendly match’ on the playground of Police Public School and gunned down five of them, before getting killed in a fierce battle. According to sources six CRPF personnel and four civilians sustained injuries in the terror strike and the following operation.
This is the first suicide attack in Kashmir in three years. In January 2010, three militants and five others were killed in a 48-hour operation at the Srinagar's major business nerve centre of Lalchowk.
Hizb handiwork
Meanwhile, an organisation of the Kashmiri militants, Hizbul Mujahideen, has claimed responsibility for the attack.
One of the Srinagar-based news gathering agencies, Kashmir News Service, reported that the Hizbul Mujahideen spokesman Baleeg-ud-din spoke over phone claiming responsibility for the attack.
“It was a guerrilla attack and the Hizb militants will carry on such attacks also in the future”, the spokesman purportedly said.
A senior official, however, insisted that Police had seized “documents and other evidences on the spot of the encounter” suggesting the involvement of Lashkar-e-Toiba.
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Two militants, posing as local cricket players, engaged CRPF men in a ‘friendly match’ on the playground of Police Public School and gunned down five of them, before getting killed in a fierce battle. According to sources six CRPF personnel and four civilians sustained injuries in the terror strike and the following operation.
This is the first suicide attack in Kashmir in three years. In January 2010, three militants and five others were killed in a 48-hour operation at the Srinagar's major business nerve centre of Lalchowk.
Hizb handiwork
Meanwhile, an organisation of the Kashmiri militants, Hizbul Mujahideen, has claimed responsibility for the attack.
One of the Srinagar-based news gathering agencies, Kashmir News Service, reported that the Hizbul Mujahideen spokesman Baleeg-ud-din spoke over phone claiming responsibility for the attack.
“It was a guerrilla attack and the Hizb militants will carry on such attacks also in the future”, the spokesman purportedly said.
A senior official, however, insisted that Police had seized “documents and other evidences on the spot of the encounter” suggesting the involvement of Lashkar-e-Toiba.
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