Two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists have been killed in an encounter that went on for nearly 30 hours at Karan Nagar in Srinagar.
The two LeT militants, who were involved in a failed terror bid on a CRPF camp, were hiding inside an under construction building.
“While one was gunned down as he came out of the under construction building to get into another adjacent building, the other was trapped and killed inside the building that they took refuge in on Monday,” a police officer said.
The exact identity of the militants was still being established, the police said, adding that a search operation in the area was going on.
Encounter between terrorists hiding in building and security forces resumed early morning.
The militants took shelter in the building on Monday after they were forced to withdraw and later trapped inside the building following their failed terror bid on a CRPF camp.
The militants had entered this building after an alert sentry at the observation post of 23 battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) spotted them and fired.
“The sentry at the camp noticed two suspicious persons at around 4.30 am, carrying backpacks and weapons. He challenged them and opened fire,” a spokesman of the CRPF said on Monday.
One CRPF trooper was killed during the gunfight while a constable of the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police was injured.
(With IANS inputs)