Three policemen killed in J&K

By Shujaat Bukhari

SRINAGAR, NOV. 25. Three policemen and a civilian were killed and five injured in a pre-dawn fidayeen attack by militants on a security forces camp in Banihal on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway.

Police said a group of militants descended from the southern hillock near the Jawahar Tunnel where a joint security camp of the Indo-Tibetian Border Police (ITBP) and the Indian Reserve Police (IRP) is located. The militants hurled grenades and opened indiscriminate fire on the security personnel who stand guard at the 2.5 km-long tunnel, the only surface link between Kashmir and rest of the country.

The Lashkar-e-Taiba has claimed responsibility for the attack and its spokesman, Mr. Abu Osama, said here that a two- member fidayeen squad of the outfit carried out the attack.

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