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11 top militants arrested

The Jammu and Kashmir police's Special Operation Group has arrested 11 top militants, foiling their plan to cause disturbances on Republic day.

In another incident, panic gripped the historical Lal Chowk when some unidentified gunmen fired on a police party on Wednesday afternoon. The police party returned the fire, but the gunmen escaped.

Elsewhere, militants killed two people and injured three security men. The civilians, killed in Daripora and Patnazi, have been identified as Ghulam Nabi Heig and Mushtaq Ahmad.

Two security men were injured in a grenade attack at Tral bus stand on Wednesday evening. Another personnel was injured when a mine he was defusing went off at Anchaa lake.

A police spokesman said the state police's SOG (Srinagar district) have been raiding several hideouts of the militants in the last week, following information of plans to disrupt the January 26 celebrations.

He claimed the SOG, headed by Manohar Singh, succeeded in arresting all the members of the Tehreek-e-Jehad group from different parts of the Srinagar city.

"The arrested militants said they were planning a series of bomb attacks to cause disturbances on January 26," the spokesman said, "They also confessed to about a dozen bomb blasts and attacks on security forces in Srinagar during the past two months."

The arms and ammunition recovered from the militants included four AK-56 rifles, 20 kilogrammes of explosives, three anti-personnel mines, 25 electric detonators, five pipe bombs, six grenades, a self loading rifle, three improvised explosive devices, a pistol, two rifle grenades, 13 magazines and 461 rounds of ammunition.

UNI

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