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Shootout at the Kashmiri Korral
2004-03-03
A suspected militant with explosives on his body grabbed a guard’s rifle and opened fire in a jail courtyard in India-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday, sparking a shootout that killed five people as well as himself, police said.
Jumped Deputy Dog, took his gun away and cut loose.
The gunman was overpowered by other guards and killed, but not before three policemen and two civilians were fatally injured, said P.L. Gupta, inspector-general of police in Jammu, the winter capital of India’s Jammu-Kashmir state.
Just another day in beautiful Kashmir.
He said officers investigating the attack believe the attacker fired toward a jail bus preparing to take 13 suspects to court in order to create panic so he could free an associate on board. The man who allegedly was to be freed was injured in the firing and hospitalized. Gupta did not explain why the gunman would fire on a bus containing a man he wanted to free.
Either he was shooting at the guards on the bus and displayed typical islamic marksmanship, or he was trying to kill the guy instead of freeing him.
’This was a militant attack,’ Gupta said. ’He wanted to free one of the militants on the bus.’ He said explosives were found on the man’s body.
Killed him before he could push the button. Looks like the "You’ll never take me alive" bomb vest is becoming standard issue for gunnies.
Why wear a boom vest if you're going to spring Mr. Big from the clutches of the cops? Why shoot up the bus if Mr. Big's on it? Even if you were going to shoot up the bus, why not bring your own gun? It sound a lot more like if Mr. Big was involved as an objective at all, he was a target. He knows too much, so he's suddenly become expendable.
Posted by:Steve

#1  Update, this makes more sense:
At least six people have been killed and 12 injured during an attempted suicide attack in Indian-administered Kashmir, police say.
They say a militant fired on a police vehicle parked outside a jail but was shot dead by prison guards. The vehicle was due to take a group of prisoners to court in the state's winter capital, Jammu. A senior police official in Jammu, PL Gupta, said the man who attacked the jail on Wednesday was a militant with grenades strapped around his body. He wanted to free one of the prisoners being taken to the court, police said.
Three policemen, one of the prisoners and a civilian were among those killed along with the militant.

Not a bomb belt, but grenades.
Posted by: Steve   2004-3-3 11:35:06 AM  

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