Lashkar’s back after a lull: 6 CRPF men killed

BSF spokesman Tirth Acharaya said the incident occured when a CRPF vehicle was entering the front gate. ‘‘As the gate sentry and one of the guards were closing the gate, one of the militants lobbed a grenade, which was followed by firing. He rushed towards the gate and was stopped by CRPF sentry Kishan Bahadur. The fidayeen exploded a grenade killing himself and Bahadur on the spot,’’ he said.

In the meantime, said Acharya, another fidayeen scaled the rear wall, entered the cook house and started spraying bullets on jawans queueing up for breakfast. Four jawans were killed near the cook house and six others injured, three of them seriously.

Acharya said the BSF’s Quick Reaction Team entered the hotel compound in their bunker vehicle and killed the militant. While the Lashkar said one of the militants was a local, from Anantnag, police said were foreigners.

In another incident, a BSF jawan was seriously injured when an unidentified militant shot at him with a silencer fitted pistol in the heart of the city this afternoon.