The night-long gun battle between two “fidayeens” (suicide squad members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba) and the Central Reserve Police Force ended early on Friday morning with the killing of the militants. Three CRPF personnel were injured.Director-General of Police Kuldip Khoda told reporters that the militants were Pakistani nationals. They were identified as Abu Hashim and Abu Zahid from documents they carried. Two AK-56 rifles, eight magazines, four hand-grenades, 52 rounds of ammunition and a mobile phone were recovered from them.
Mr. Khoda said that the militantsÂ’ attempt to sneak into the camp was foiled by alert jawans on Friday evening and they were forced to take refuge in a parking lot. To avoid collateral damage and casualties, the assault was halted by nightfall and it resumed in the morning. One militant was killed early in the fight.
Lashkar-e-Taiba owned responsibility for the attack. Its spokesman Abdullah Gaznavi said two militants of the outfit were killed and one managed to escape. He claimed that five CRPF personnel were killed. The DGP said infiltration from across the Line of Control continued to take place, but the security apparatus in the State was geared up to meet the challenge.