Major infiltration bid foiled, nine killed

SRINAGAR, DEC 5: Nine people, including four militants and four intruders, were killed and two others wounded as security forces frustrate...

SRINAGAR, DEC 5: Nine people, including four militants and four intruders, were killed and two others wounded as security forces frustrated a major attempt of Pakistan to push a group of infiltrators into Jammu and Kashmir since last evening.

The intrusion bid was foiled when alert security forces gunned down four Pakistanis in Samba sector of Jammu region yesterday, an official spokesman said here today. The spokesman said security forces noticed a group of Pakistani intruders trying to sneak into Jammu through Samba sector. The intruders were challenged and asked to surrender.

However, they tried to escape and were killed in the firing, he said. The spokesman said four militants were killed in two separate encounters with security forces at Phagla-Surankote in Poonch district and Hidar-Keshan in Doda district yesterday.

Bullet-riddled body of a person was fished out from a nullah at Kulgam in Anantnag district of South Kashmir last night, the spokesman said, adding the victim was abducted and latershot dead by the militants.

Militants also shot at and injured a person inside his house at Badergund in Ganderbal area on the outskirts of Srinagar late last night, the spokesman said.

He said a counter-insurgent, Ghulam Rasool Wani alias Nika received head injury when he was fired upon by militants in his village at Hara-Trath in Pattan last night. Wani was affiliated with Ikhwan outfit. The spokesman said militants fired upon the house of one, Sher Dil at Malangam in Bandipora area last night, causing partial damage to the house.

A fierce encounter broke out between militants and security search parties at Bohtu forests in Bandipora area late last night but no casualty was reported, the spokesman said, adding the quot;operationquot; was continuing.

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The spokesman said militants opened fire and hurled grenades on a security camp at Bahrampora in Baramulla last night. Army troops deployed returned the fire, repulsing the militant attack. Nobody was injured in the gun-battle which lasted several hours.