Jammu: 2 terrorists killed; Army starts final assault
Terror struck Jammu on Wednesday when militants suspected to have infiltrated from Pakistan just yesterday killed four persons including an army officer and took six people including four children from a family as hostage in a house.
By Agencies |
JAMMU: Terror struck Jammu on Wednesday when militants suspected to have infiltrated from Pakistan just yesterday killed four persons including an army officer and took six people including four children from a family as hostage in a house. (In Video)
In a day-long gunbattle that stretched till the night, the security forces killed two of the three militants holed up in the residential building in Chinore in a crowded area on the city's outskirts, 20 km from the international border. (In Video)
The children are aged between three and nine years while the other three hostages were women that included their mother, police said.
One militant was killed in the early stage of the encounter that began around 7 am on Wednesday, the police said. The second militant was eliminated in the evening after a three-hour lull in exchange of fire, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Jammu K Rajendra said. (In Video)
All the hostages are believed to be safe and security forces are working out strategies to neutralise the third militant holed up and rescue the hostages without any threat to their lives, he added. Barbed wire fencing has also been erected in the area around the house.
IGP Kuldip Khoda said the second militant was killed while he was trying to escape under the cover of darkness.
Police said two civilians, a jawan identified as Havildar Vijay Kumar and a JCO Naik Subedar V V K Paarkashan were killed by the militants. Six people were also injured. Earlier reports said three civilians were killed.
The militants, who were suspected by police to be the same people who had infiltrated across the border under a cover of firing by Pakistani forces, first came in a goods carrier and attacked an army checkpost in the Domana-Mishriwala area on Jammu-Akhnoor-Poonch highway on Wednesday morning.
In a day-long gunbattle that stretched till the night, the security forces killed two of the three militants holed up in the residential building in Chinore in a crowded area on the city's outskirts, 20 km from the international border. (In Video)
The children are aged between three and nine years while the other three hostages were women that included their mother, police said.
One militant was killed in the early stage of the encounter that began around 7 am on Wednesday, the police said. The second militant was eliminated in the evening after a three-hour lull in exchange of fire, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Jammu K Rajendra said. (In Video)
All the hostages are believed to be safe and security forces are working out strategies to neutralise the third militant holed up and rescue the hostages without any threat to their lives, he added. Barbed wire fencing has also been erected in the area around the house.
IGP Kuldip Khoda said the second militant was killed while he was trying to escape under the cover of darkness.
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Police said two civilians, a jawan identified as Havildar Vijay Kumar and a JCO Naik Subedar V V K Paarkashan were killed by the militants. Six people were also injured. Earlier reports said three civilians were killed.
The militants, who were suspected by police to be the same people who had infiltrated across the border under a cover of firing by Pakistani forces, first came in a goods carrier and attacked an army checkpost in the Domana-Mishriwala area on Jammu-Akhnoor-Poonch highway on Wednesday morning.
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