12 killed in 2 fidayeen attacks in Jammu Lastupdate at : Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:19:23 IST SmallerDefaultLarger Jammu: In two attacks, one after another, on a police station at Hiranagar in Kathua district of Jammu and a military camp in the adjoining Samba district, militants killed four policemen and six Army personnel on Thursday morning. The attack occurred ahead of the scheduled meeting between the Indian and the Pakistani Prime Ministers, Manmohan Singh and Nawaz Sharief, as also a UN General Assembly session in New York. Sources said that three to four militants in combat uniform arrived at Hiranagar police station in an auto rickshaw this morning and trooped into the premises without facing resistance. They fired indiscriminately and lobbed hand grenades. Four policemen died in the attack. Sources said the militants also gunned down the cleaner of a truck and hijacked the vehicle alongwith its driver and drove away towards the highway. One more civilian reportedly died in exchange of gunfire. Even as the police alerted all police, paramilitary and Army units, the militants stormed a formation of 16 Cavalry on the highway at Samba. Both Hiranagar and Samba towns are situated just 5 to 10 kilometers from the International Border between India and Pakistan. As a fierce gunbattle was on between the militants and the forces, sources said that six Army personnel died in the beginning of the second suicide offensive. (Agencies)
Posted on: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 07:11:53 +0000
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