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By Luv Puri with agencies
BSF and police officers near the body of Imtiaz Ahmad who was killed while trying to storm the BSF camp at Nishat in Srinagar on Tuesday.
Twenty persons, including a fidayeen, five Pakistani infiltrators and five members of a family were killed in the violence. When reports last came in, the security forces were engaged in a fierce encounter with militants in the border district of Kathua in Jammu region, in which three policemen were injured. The Border Security Force foiled a major fidayeen (suicide) attack on a camp in Nishat area early today. At 4.15 a.m. two fidayeen tried to sneak into the BSF camp through the fence. An alert sentry challenged the militants and shot dead one of them. The other managed to escape. In Anantnag district, militants exploded an Improvised Explosive Device near Awantipura on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway when an army convoy was passing, killing a driver. Six jawans and 10 civilians were injured. Earlier, militants carried out another explosion near the Qazikund area, disrupting traffic for three hours on the highway. In the border district of Poonch, five militants belonging to the Al-Badr, the Hizb-e-Islami and the Jaish-e-Mohammad were killed. Four bodies have been recovered while the search was on for the fifth. Police sources told The Hindu that around 200 security personnel — 150 policemen and 50 Army Jawans — were involved in a fierce encounter in Ghati village of Kathua district near the Indo-Pakistan International Border. About seven militants were spotted by village defence guards in the border areas. They intercepted the militants at 3.30 p.m. and police personnel from the nearby police post were called in. The fire subsided in the evening and forces have cordoned off the area. Three policemen who were injured in the incident were rushed to hospital. Senior police officers are at the spot monitoring the situation. In Doda district, militants last night killed five members of a family in Banihal tehsil. Police sources said heavily armed militants barged into the house of Sarpanch Khadim Ahmed (48) at Chamalvas village, lined up the entire family and killed them. The Inspector-General of BSF for Kashmir range, Vijay Raman, attributed the fresh wave of attacks to the desperation which has set in among the militants after the recent killing of the chief operational commander of the Jaish-e-Mohammad, Gazi Baba. Sources said that a high-level meeting of the BSF was held to take adequate steps to avert any fresh strikes. It was decided to adopt an offensive strategy and carry out further operations to further bust modules of militants in the urban centres.
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