A paramilitary trooper was killed in an ongoing gunfight with militants holed up in a building after a failed terror bid on a CRPF camp in Karan Nagar area of Srinagar, police said. The trooper, who was wounded in the shootout, was shifted to the nearby SMHS hospital, barely 300 metres away from the site of the gunfight. He succumbed to his injuries later.
Troops of the CRPF and the Special Operations Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmir Police were carrying out the operation against the militants.
Kashmir police chief S.P. Vaid in a tweet said: “I congratulate alert CRPF sentry for averting Suicidal attack in Karan nagar Srinagar. Fortunately two terrorists are in cordon & exchange of fire going on.”
Earlier around 4.30 a.m., two militants were spotted by an alert sentry at the observation post of 23rd battalion of the CRPF in Karan Nagar area.
“The sentry at the camp noticed two suspicious persons at around 4.30 am, carrying backpacks and weapons. He challenged them and opened fire as well,” a spokesman of the CRPF had said.
He added that the militants fled from the spot. In the latest reports, searches are on around the camp periphery.
The militants took shelter in a house which has been cordoned off by the CRPF. Intermittent exchange of fire was reported and the CRPF moved in more troops to ensure that the militants do not escape.
The incident comes two days after Jaish-e-Mohammad militants attacked an Army camp in Sunjuwan area of Jammu, killing six people including five soldiers.
(With inputs from agencies)