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Third attacker of Badami Bagh also killed

Two foreign extremists, including Abu Akram, one of the three men who attacked the Badami Bagh cantonment in Srinagar that killed six soldiers, including Major P Purushottam, and two security personnel were among five persons killed in a six-hour gun battle at Galwanpora late last night.

Elsewhere in the state, four security personnel and two extremists were among seven persons killed while security forces captured six militants in the last 24 hours.

An official spokesman said personnel of the Special Operations Group of the Jammu and Kashmir police were fired upon by extremists hiding in a house at Galwanpora in the central Kashmir district of Badgam last evening.

Two SOG personnel were killed and two others were injured. But the house was immediately cordoned off and reinforcements summoned from a nearby camp. The exchange of fire continued for about six hours.

Forces later fired rockets towards the house from where the extremists were attacking them with automatic weapons and grenades.

The bodies of two foreign militants and a civilian were recovered from the debris of the damaged house this morning.

A Lashkar-e-Toiba spokesman told local newspapers that they had lost two activists, including Abu Akram, who was a member of the suicide squad that had attacked the 15 Corps headquarters.

Militants hurled a hand-grenade inside a Border Security Force bunker at Hawal in downtown Srinagar last evening, causing injuries to two jawans. Later, security forces retaliated, but a woman was killed and four others were injured in the firing.

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