By four suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists were killed and 2 policemen slashed in a very gun battle on the Jammu-Srinagar national route when a truck carrying freshly infiltrated militants was intercepted close to Nagrota nowadays, officers aforesaid.
Planned to derail DDC polls: police
The four terrorists were on their thanks to the Kashmir natural depression to disturb the forthcoming District Development Council (DDC) polls, aforesaid the IGP, Kashmir
It appears the terrorists infiltrated from across the IB within the Jammu region before boarding a Kashmir-bound truck
AK rifles, grenades among arms condemned
A huge cache of arms and explosive material, together with eleven Last Frontier rifles, twenty four magazines, twenty nine grenades, vi UBGLs and electronic circuits, was recovered
The arms haul indicates the militants were suicide bombers and belonged to the Army of Muhammad, the J&K Police aforesaid
MEA slams Pak on infiltration bids
The infiltration of terrorists & induction of arms to fuel terror activities continue intense. this can be impractical while not the support of Asian country forces. – Anurag Srivastava, MEA representative
When the truck was intercepted by a joint team of police and CRPF personnel, the terrorists on board resorted to firing.
The terrorists had return to execute a “big plan”, that has been frustrated, military officer of Police, Jammu, Mukesh Singh, said. The IGP, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, aforesaid the four terrorists were on their thanks to the Kashmir natural depression to disturb the District Development Council polls regular later this month, as Asian country has been making an attempt to derail the political method.
Briefing media on the encounter, the Jammu IGP aforesaid once the truck was stopped for checking at Ban parcel within the Nagrota space at five am, its driver left the vehicle and fled. CRPF and police personnel emotional to look the vehicle and came under attack from the terrorists activity within the truck.
The militants were asked to surrender however they unheeded the announcement, the IGP aforesaid, adding that different security forces conjointly joined in, resulting in a fierce gun battle during which terrorists lobbed grenades. when a three-hour operation, the protection forces managed to kill the four terrorists, however within the method 2 policemen sustained non-fatal injuries, the IGP aforesaid.
The truck, loaded with rice sacks, caught hearth throughout the encounter. The bodies of the terrorists were found in a very cavity within the truck.
Lauding the success of the protection forces, J&K Lt Governor Manoj Sinha aforesaid, “No outside force will derail United States from our mission of peace and progress.” He visited the 2 slashed policemen in a very hospital in Jammu.
