Jaish attack on Army base foiled, 3 killed

Intel tips off Army on suicide squad at airport

Security forces foiled a predawn attempt by the Jaishe-Mohammed to storm a BSF camp near the highsecurity Srinagar airport on Tuesday, killing all three militants in an operation that also claimed the life of an ASI of the force, police said.

State DGP S.P. Vaid said the three terrorists who attacked the BSF camp had been “neutralised”.

“We are carrying out search operations inside the premises to rule out the possibility of planting of explosives,” he said.

BSF assistant sub-inspector B.K. Yadav, 50, was killed and three jawans injured when the militants entered the BSF battalion headquarters at Gogoland, adjacent to the airport.

Officials in the know of developments said there was prior intelligence that a Jaish-e-Mohammed operative, identified as ‘Noora Trali’, had brought in a suicide squad into the city.

Security forces foiled a pre-dawn attempt by the Jaish-e-Mohammed to storm a BSF camp near the high-security Srinagar airport on Tuesday, killing all three militants in an operation that also claimed the life of an ASI of the force, police said.

Briefing reporters later, IGP (Kashmir range) Muneer Khan said the overground network of the terror group had been identified but did not divulge any further information. Asked specifically whether the Jaish-e-Mohammed was behind the attack, Khan said, “Such type of attacks have been carried out by this group only.”

He said the terrorists were dressed in combat fatigues and entered the camp from an area adjacent to a residential colony by cutting the fence.

“The slain terrorists were part of the larger Jaish group that had infiltrated earlier this year,” he said.

The IG added that three members of the same group were killed in an attack on district police lines in Pulwama on August 26.

“Six to seven terrorists of this group are still at large. We have identified the overground network which is helping these terrorists move around,” he said.