Jammu, June 14
The police today foiled a plan of blowing up the Civil Secretariat in Srinagar by defusing two powerful IEDs which had been planted near the multi-storeyed complex.
According to the police, the two IEDs had been kept inside a three-wheeler parked near Broadway Hotel behind the Civil Secretariat. The police patrol party detected the IEDs and they were later defused. The police said that the blast could have caused damage to the Secretariat.
In two separate encounters, between the militants and the troops, at least 10 rebels were killed. Official reports said that the troops received specific information about a hideout of militants in the Zarnar forest belt in Kupwara. As the troops neared the hideout, they came under heavy fire. The jawans retaliated and a part of the hideout was damaged in the exchange of fire and five militants were killed. The operation was still on.
In another incident at Sonapindi in Kupwara, four militants were killed in an encounter with the troops. This encounter, which started late last evening, was still going one as some groups of militants are said to be fortified their position in the area.
In the Warpora area of Sopore, militants killed Afrad Ahmed Malik on the ground that he was a police informer.
This afternoon, militants hurled a grenade at the bus stand at Bandipora in which more than 30 persons were injured. Three of them are in a critical condition.
In two separate incidents in the Kalakot area of Rajouri, four militants were killed today in an operation launched by the security forces. The police said that in all the three incidents large quantities of weapons and ammunition were seized.
Security forces foiled an ex-filtration bid when they arrested seven youths and two guides after raids on a number of houses in Kupwara. The raid came after the security forces were tipped off that some youths were being forcibly taken to Pakistan occupied Kashmir for training in subversive activities. They were later handed over to their families.
Border Security Force (BSF) jawans killed a militant at Chanapora in the Central Kashmir district of Badgam last evening while two militants of Tehreq-e-Jehad-Islami were killed at Maidan Behak in Kupwara last night.
One AK rifle, 5 magazines, 100 rounds, one pistol, one grenade launcher, seven rifle grenades and one damaged wireless set were also seized from the militant killed at
Chanapora.
