The Hindu : Three BSF men killed in 'fidayeen' attack

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Three BSF men killed in 'fidayeen' attack

By Shujaat Bukhari

SRINAGAR APRIL 25 . Fourteen persons, including an Army Major were killed and 30 injured in a spate of militant strikes in Jammu and Kashmir, including a `fidayeen' (suicide) attack on a sector headquarters of the Border Security Force and a landmine blast since Thursday evening.

A group of heavily armed militants struck at the BSF sector headquarters at Bagh in Bandipore town at about 9.45 a.m. and hurled grenades besides opening indiscriminate fire from automatic weapons. Though the guards were caught unawares, they returned fire and engaged the militants in a gun fight which continued for several hours. Police said three BSF personnel, two militants and a civilian were killed and three BSF jawans injured in the incident. Police sources said that the militants were believed to be from the Jaish-e-Mohammad outfit, but a lesser-known Al Madinah regiment has claimed responsibility for the attack.

This is the first fidayeen attack of the year in the Kashmir Valley. Militants ambushed an Army patrol killing a Major and a soldier in Sumlar village, also in the Valley.

Militants hurled a grenade towards a security picket near the court complex in Pattan township at around 12.30 p.m. and three civilians, two of them women, were killed in the explosion, the SSP, Baramulla Javed Riyaz, said. More than 30 persons were injured, many of whom were in critical condition.

Militants shot dead Abdul Gani Malik, a 70-year-old block president of the ruling People's Democratic Party at Waripora Baramulla and another PDP activist at Pampore. Militants barged into the house of Abdul Ahad Malik, an activist of the pro-India Ikhwan militant outfit and shot him dead.

A civilian, Fayaz Ahmed, was shot dead in Laroo in Pulwama district. A soldier was killed in Mendhar in Poonch district.

teenager was killed and two members of her family injured in overnight shelling from the Pakistani side in Drass area of Kargil district, police said.

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