SRINAGAR: A soldier was killed while another injured after two Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists shot them in Pampore near Srinagar, in the second and hit-and-run attacks against security forces in the Valley in four days on Saturday .
The brazen attack terrorists suggests that the remnants retain their ability to attack at will and bring back memories of the 1990 violence, although the state has witnessed a fall of all time in the care of infiltration and terrorist violence in recent years.
According to reports, the soldiers, who were part of the opening match of the Rashtriya Rifles road, went to withdraw money from an ATM along the road between Srinagar and Jammu national, when terrorists fired at them point blank. "The militants were hiding somewhere when our men fired,'' said Army spokesman Lt. Col. JS Brar.Eyewitnesses said the attackers fled away panic in the city. Some of them said that the attackers were carrying guns.
A police officer identified the dead as Deepak Singh, who died en route to hospital Badami Bagh Army, a few kilometers from Srinagar. The other soldier was recovering in hospital. `` Two militants carrying AK-47 rifles attacked the soldiers belonging to 50 Rashtriya Rifles,'' the official said. He said police launched an operation to apprehend the attackers.
Lashkar-e-Taiba, claimed responsibility for these attacks hit-and-run. "Our cadres killed a soldier and another wounded in the attack Pampore. Also grabbed an assault rifle of the members of the Army," a local news agency quoted LeT spokesman, Abdullah Gaznavi as saying. Gaznavi also claimed responsibility for attacks on police in Pulwama and Kulgam.
The brazen attack terrorists suggests that the remnants retain their ability to attack at will and bring back memories of the 1990 violence, although the state has witnessed a fall of all time in the care of infiltration and terrorist violence in recent years.
According to reports, the soldiers, who were part of the opening match of the Rashtriya Rifles road, went to withdraw money from an ATM along the road between Srinagar and Jammu national, when terrorists fired at them point blank. "The militants were hiding somewhere when our men fired,'' said Army spokesman Lt. Col. JS Brar.Eyewitnesses said the attackers fled away panic in the city. Some of them said that the attackers were carrying guns.
A police officer identified the dead as Deepak Singh, who died en route to hospital Badami Bagh Army, a few kilometers from Srinagar. The other soldier was recovering in hospital. `` Two militants carrying AK-47 rifles attacked the soldiers belonging to 50 Rashtriya Rifles,'' the official said. He said police launched an operation to apprehend the attackers.
Lashkar-e-Taiba, claimed responsibility for these attacks hit-and-run. "Our cadres killed a soldier and another wounded in the attack Pampore. Also grabbed an assault rifle of the members of the Army," a local news agency quoted LeT spokesman, Abdullah Gaznavi as saying. Gaznavi also claimed responsibility for attacks on police in Pulwama and Kulgam.
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