Trooper killed in JeM attack on BSF camp
GUNFIGHT NEAR AIRPORT All three militants involved in attack neutralised; three jawans also sustain injuries in attack
A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper was killed while three sustained injuries on Tuesday after militants attacked a paramilitary complex in a high-security zone close to the Srinagar airport just before daybreak, leading to an hours-long gunfight that ended after all three suspects were killed, officials said.
The attack began around 4am at the 182 Battalion Camp of the BSF, located in a highly sanitised area. An Indian Air Force base, a CRPF camp and an NIA office are close by, making Tuesday’s attack a worrying security breach.
BSF assistant sub-inspector BK Yadav, 50, was killed in the attack.
State director general of police SP 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.
Militant group Jaish e Mohammed claimed the attack on the BSF facility, which comes
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a little over a month after an identical incident in Pulwama on August 26 when 8 security personnel were killed by the outfit.
Sources said it was the “Afzal Guru squad” of the banned organisation which has been involved in such attacks.
The same group was also involved in one of the deadliest attack on an army installation in Uri in September 2016, in which 18 soldiers lost their lives.
The camp is located at the first entrance of the Srinagar International airport which is also an Air Force base. Sources say the militants entered the camp in army fatigue and were loaded with automatic weapons and grenades.
Morning flights out of the airport were cancelled, and staff and passengers were initially stopped at Humhama chowk a few kilometres before the entrance.