STATE TIMES NEWS
SRINAGAR: One terrorist was killed as the operation to flush out militants holed up inside a government building in the Pampore area on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway entered the second day on Tuesday.
An army official said the area around the Entrepreneurship Devel-opment Institute (EDI) premises had been cordoned off and exchange of fire was going on. “Security forces have launched a fresh offensive on Tuesday morning to flush out the terrorists,” the official said.
Two to three terrorists stormed into the EDI complexes in the wee hours of Monday and took positions inside one of the buildings.
The ultras could have entered the complex from the riverside but that can only be ascertained once the operation is over.
After getting inside the complex, the terrorist set on fire a few mattresses inside a hostel room to attract the attention of the police and other security forces, which arrived within minutes of the smoke emanating from the building.
In the initial exchange of fire, an army soldier was injured, the official said. The security forces on Monday used mortar shells, light machine guns and other small arms to flush out the militants but so far had not been successful, the official said.
Terrorists had targeted the EDI building in February this year as well.
Five security personnel, including two young army officers and a civilian employee of the Institute, and three terrorists were killed in that operation that lasted 48 hours.
Grenade attack in Shopian; 9 injured
Srinagar: Nine persons, including two security force personnel, were injured on Tuesday in a grenade attack on a CRPF patrol party in south Kashmir’s Shopian district.
Terrorists hurled the grenade at the CRPF personnel in Shopian town at around 11.40 AM, resulting in injuries to seven civilians and two security personnel, a police official said.
He said the injured have been taken to Shopian district hospital even as security forces have launched a search operation to track down the militants.
Two CRPF jawans and four civilians injured in a grenade attack in Shopian district.
