<p>Four militants were killed after CRPF troopers repelled a fidayeen (suicide) attack on their camp in Sumbal area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district during the early hours of Monday.<br /><br />Sources said the heavily armed militants, believed to be Pakistanis, tried to enter the camp of 45 Battalion around 4.10 am by lobbying grenades and opening fire. <br /><br />“The alert sentries retaliated, triggering a brief gunfight in which all the four fidayeen were killed,” a source said. <br /><br />The identity of the slain militants was yet to be ascertained. Jammu and Kashmir police chief Shesh Pal Vaid tweeted a picture of four AK-47 rifles and other ammunition, which he said, were recovered from the slain militants.<br /><br />A senior police officer told DH that the fidayeen were planning an Uri-style attack and carrying inflammable <br />material, including petrol bombs. “Preliminary investigation revealed that the fidayeen had planned to get inside the camp and take control of a vantage point to prolong the encounter and burn down the place,” the officer said.<br /><br />However, locals claimed that the unidentified youth were killed in a fake encounter. “One of the slain youths was wearing slippers. Have you ever seen a militant wearing slippers while on a fidayeen mission? Their bodies were mutilated by the troops,” a local told DH over phone. <br /><br />The killings led to intense clashes between civilians and security forces, in which several protesters were injured.<br />In a similar attack on September 18 last year, 18 troopers were killed and 18 injured as a group of fidayeen had stormed a strategic military base in north Kashmir’s Uri. On December 5, 2014, six fidayeen militants had carried out a similar attack in Baramulla. <br /><br />While the militants were killed, eight soldiers and several policemen had also lost their lives. The latest attack comes two days after militants ambushed an army convoy on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district.<br /><br />Two soldiers were killed and four others were wounded.<br />DH News Service <br /><br /></p>
<p>Four militants were killed after CRPF troopers repelled a fidayeen (suicide) attack on their camp in Sumbal area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district during the early hours of Monday.<br /><br />Sources said the heavily armed militants, believed to be Pakistanis, tried to enter the camp of 45 Battalion around 4.10 am by lobbying grenades and opening fire. <br /><br />“The alert sentries retaliated, triggering a brief gunfight in which all the four fidayeen were killed,” a source said. <br /><br />The identity of the slain militants was yet to be ascertained. Jammu and Kashmir police chief Shesh Pal Vaid tweeted a picture of four AK-47 rifles and other ammunition, which he said, were recovered from the slain militants.<br /><br />A senior police officer told DH that the fidayeen were planning an Uri-style attack and carrying inflammable <br />material, including petrol bombs. “Preliminary investigation revealed that the fidayeen had planned to get inside the camp and take control of a vantage point to prolong the encounter and burn down the place,” the officer said.<br /><br />However, locals claimed that the unidentified youth were killed in a fake encounter. “One of the slain youths was wearing slippers. Have you ever seen a militant wearing slippers while on a fidayeen mission? Their bodies were mutilated by the troops,” a local told DH over phone. <br /><br />The killings led to intense clashes between civilians and security forces, in which several protesters were injured.<br />In a similar attack on September 18 last year, 18 troopers were killed and 18 injured as a group of fidayeen had stormed a strategic military base in north Kashmir’s Uri. On December 5, 2014, six fidayeen militants had carried out a similar attack in Baramulla. <br /><br />While the militants were killed, eight soldiers and several policemen had also lost their lives. The latest attack comes two days after militants ambushed an army convoy on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district.<br /><br />Two soldiers were killed and four others were wounded.<br />DH News Service <br /><br /></p>
