SRINAGAR: The operation towards Jaish-e-Mohhamed fidayeen who had stormed a CRPF training camp at Lethpora in Awantipora, in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, on New Year's eve ended on Monday after a 16-hour gunfight by which two of the attackers, both locals, have been killed and their our bodies recovered on Sunday itself. The safety forces recovered the body of a third, unidentified terrorist on Monday, CRPF special DG S N Shrivastava mentioned at a press conference.
One of the slain militants, 17-year-old Fardeen Ahmad Khanday, was once the son of a serving police constable. Five CRPF males lost their lives in Sunday's firefight. However, Spl DG Shrivastava mentioned handiest 4 CRPF males have been actually killed within the gunfight and that the fifth died of a heart attack. "Only four men were killed, and not five," Shrivastava clarified.
The Spl DG mentioned the identity of the third terrorist, whose body was once recovered all the way through a combing operation, could now not be established via police, "but he seems to be a Pakistani national". The operation ended within the forenoon on Monday after our males, along side the police, had resumed the operation Monday morning, Shrivastava mentioned, adding that the operation were suspended on Sunday when night time fell.
An unknown number of JeM suicide attackers had entered the CRPF training camp at Lethpora, in Pulwama district's Awantipora, where the power's 185 Battalion is housed.
According to the CRPF, three AK-47 rifles and eight grenades have been recovered from the site of the gunfight.
"We had anticipated such an attack and our forces were on high alert. But the premises they stormed is a big a chunk of land. However, our men fought bravely and all the militants were killed," Shrivastava mentioned.
Intelligence businesses had alerted the forces a week ago that the JeM was once planning a major attack on probably the most camps in south Kashmir to "avenge" the killing of Noor Mohammad Tantray.
The Intelligence Bureau had now not given particular main points however resources mentioned camps in Tral and Pulwama have been requested to be extra-cautious as a result of native JeM cadres, assisted via their Pakistani opposite numbers, would try to enter the camps to inflict harm. CRPF DG Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar visited the spot on Monday and paid tribute to the CRPF males killed in motion.
"Since we had anticipated that this (camp) could be a probable target, the night on which the attack took place the entire campus was on high alert, a large number of people were on duty, and there were patrolling parties. Even the battalion in-charge was patrolling and looking after arrangements," Spl DG Shrivastava mentioned. "As soon as the militants entered, they were challenged, and it was because of the alertness and professionalism shown by the unit that they got limited to one or two buildings. Our men fought bravely," he added.
One of the slain militants, 17-year-old Fardeen Ahmad Khanday, was once the son of a serving police constable. Five CRPF males lost their lives in Sunday's firefight. However, Spl DG Shrivastava mentioned handiest 4 CRPF males have been actually killed within the gunfight and that the fifth died of a heart attack. "Only four men were killed, and not five," Shrivastava clarified.
The Spl DG mentioned the identity of the third terrorist, whose body was once recovered all the way through a combing operation, could now not be established via police, "but he seems to be a Pakistani national". The operation ended within the forenoon on Monday after our males, along side the police, had resumed the operation Monday morning, Shrivastava mentioned, adding that the operation were suspended on Sunday when night time fell.
An unknown number of JeM suicide attackers had entered the CRPF training camp at Lethpora, in Pulwama district's Awantipora, where the power's 185 Battalion is housed.
According to the CRPF, three AK-47 rifles and eight grenades have been recovered from the site of the gunfight.
"We had anticipated such an attack and our forces were on high alert. But the premises they stormed is a big a chunk of land. However, our men fought bravely and all the militants were killed," Shrivastava mentioned.
Intelligence businesses had alerted the forces a week ago that the JeM was once planning a major attack on probably the most camps in south Kashmir to "avenge" the killing of Noor Mohammad Tantray.
The Intelligence Bureau had now not given particular main points however resources mentioned camps in Tral and Pulwama have been requested to be extra-cautious as a result of native JeM cadres, assisted via their Pakistani opposite numbers, would try to enter the camps to inflict harm. CRPF DG Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar visited the spot on Monday and paid tribute to the CRPF males killed in motion.
"Since we had anticipated that this (camp) could be a probable target, the night on which the attack took place the entire campus was on high alert, a large number of people were on duty, and there were patrolling parties. Even the battalion in-charge was patrolling and looking after arrangements," Spl DG Shrivastava mentioned. "As soon as the militants entered, they were challenged, and it was because of the alertness and professionalism shown by the unit that they got limited to one or two buildings. Our men fought bravely," he added.
Lethpora operation ends, body of third terrorist recovered, says CRPF Spl DG
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