LeT attack on Army camp kills 4

LeT attack on Army camp kills 4
press trust of india

Srinagar, March 4: Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Toiba militants today attacked an Army camp at Baramulla killing four soldiers, including two JCOs, and wounding four while losing two of their men, the third major strike by ultras in Jammu and Kashmir after the extension of ceasefire in the state by three months.

The suicidal attack on the Battalion Headquarters of Eighth J&K Rifles, some 55 kms from here, took place at around 0345 hrs, official sources said.

Heavily-armed LeT ultras fired rockets and lobbed grenades at the Army installation before two of them sneaked into the camp by cutting the fence, they said.

The two militants fired indiscriminately at the troops kiling four soldiers, including two Junior Commissioned Officers, and wounding an equal number.

The troop retaliated and in the resultant gunbattle lasting more than an hour both the militats were killed, the sources said.

The killed soldiers were Subedar Shri Ram, Tara Chand, Valdar Ghandi Ram and Surinder Singh, the sources said.

LeT claimed responsibility for the attack and identified its killed activists as Abu Hamaza and Abu Ammar.

Two AK-56 rifles with ten magazines, a rocket launcher and two grenades were recovered from the slain militants.

This was the third major strike by militants in Jammu and Kashmir after the extension of truce in the state till May-end.

On February 23, a day after the announcement of extension of truce, ultras killed six police personnel, including an officer, in an ambush at Kokernag-Dooru in Anantnag.

Militants ambushed an army convoy at Janglat Mandi in Anantnag on March one killing Colonel J P Janu and another soldier.