4 CRPF men die in LeT attack

SRINAGAR, MARCH 26. A suicide squad of the Pakistan-based militant outfit Lashkar-e- Taiba (LeT) today stormed a security camp here killing four Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel. One ultra perished in retaliatory fire.

Three LeT militants, wearing police uniform and armed with automatic weapons and grenades, forced their way into the heavily-guarded area of Wazirabagh and attacked the CRPF camp, located near the cultural centre of Tagore Hall around 5.45 p.m., opening indiscriminate fire on the sentries guarding the building, official sources said.

Two CRPF jawans were killed on the spot and six injured two of whom died later. Reinforcements of the Army and the BSF reached the spot and engaged the suicide squad, which succeeded in entering one of the barracks inside the camp, killing one of the militants, the sources said.

The special operations group of the State police stepped in to assist the CRPF personnel in nabbing the other two militants and succeeded in securing the safe release of five CRPF personnel locked by the militants in a room.

Some CRPF personnel were feared trapped inside the barrack where the militants had taken shelter after intruding into it, the sources said.

Army troops moved in to assist the paramilitary personnel and intermittent firing was going on, the sources said.

The body of the militant killed was recovered, they said. The attack took place in an area considered a high security zone as several battalion and company headquarters of paramilitary troops are located there.

- PTI

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