Jammu, September 1
The Indian troops have foiled a Pakistani plan of capturing an Army post in the Pallanwalla sector touching Sunderbani by killing four militants. The Indian side lost one JCO.
In another incident three policemen were injured when one IED planted by the militants near the boundary wall of the office of the superintendent police, Poonch, exploded today. The police has launched a manhunt to track down the militants.
The bodies of four civilians who were massacred by the militants in a Nowshera village of Rajouri district yesterday were cremated today amid tight security measures. The report said that a group of militants had kidnapped seven civilians from the village and three had given a slip to the abductors and jumped to safety. However, four kidnapped persons, Ashok Kumar, Vijay Kumar, Deep Kumar and Sita Ram were gunned down. For the second day today a complete bandh was observed in the Nowshera area to protest against the massacre.
Meanwhile, security forces have been put on an alert in Jammu city and its adjoining areas. Several police nakas have been set up at various focal points around the city to check infiltration of militants into the winter capital.
In Srinagar, panic gripped Habbak on the outskirts of the city today when militants triggered a series of IED blasts on the Srinagar-Ganderbal road within a span of 80 minutes, but there were no casualties, official sources said.
Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Muhammad militant outfit was suspected to have detonated the series of explosions, they said.
The first blast occurred at 1120 hours when a security vehicle was passing by, the sources told PTI.
A series of blasts then followed at 1210 hours, 1220 hours, 1235 hours and 1240 hours causing panic among the residents and forcing them to rush indoors, they said.
Meanwhile, militants killed a newly-elected sarpanch, a former militant and a contractor in the valley since last night, the sources said.
Wali-ul-Rehman, newly-elected sarpanch of Nadihal-Bandipora in Baramula district, was shot dead by militants in his house last night, they said.
