Pampore: Encounter between security forces and militants

Pampore attack Encounter between army and militants

Two to three militants are believed to have entered into the building of Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI), Pampore in the early hours of Monday. Sources said that terrorists who broke into the institute in the morning approached the campus on the outskirts of Srinagar through boats on the River Jhelum, which flows in Pakistan.

“One soldier has been injured in the exchange of fire with militants holed up inside the building at Pampore,” a defence spokesman said in Srinagar.

He said further details are awaited as the operation was in progress to flush out the militants. A building within the premises had caught fire on Monday morning, a police official said. Fire tenders were rushed to the spot, but they were not allowed to enter the building due to security reasons, the official said.

Police sources say that two to three militants could be present inside the multi-storey concrete building. They say that militants might have deliberately set the building on fire hoping that police will arrive. “It could have been a plan. They could have thought that police will arrive once they see fire and they (militants) would easily target them,” said a police source. “But when the fire servicemen arrived, they fired to show their presence inside”

The EDI hostel building is five-storey and is built in concrete. Militants had targeted the EDI building in February this year as well. Two soldiers, including an officer, a civilian employee of the Institute and three militants were killed in that operation that lasted 48 hours.

During the past week, police and paramilitary forces were on high alert in Srinagar after inputs of a militant attack. Police sources say they had inputs that militants were planning to attack a high value target in Srinagar like the Badamibagh cantonment. The cantonment is less than five kilometers away from the EDI complex.

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