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Attack on BSF camp

By Shujaat Bukhari

CRPF jawans standing near the scene of an explosion at Lal Mandi in Srinagar on Saturday. Two soldiers were killed and one was injured when militants threw a grenade. — Photo: Nissar Ahmad

SRINAGAR, NOV. 6. Hours before the Union Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, landed in Srinagar, a two-member Fidayeen squad attacked a Border Security Force camp early today near Sopore in north Kashmir, killing a BSF jawan.

One militant was killed and the other escaped.

Officials said that the militants tried to force their way into the camp at Fruit Mandi by hurling grenades and firing indiscriminately.

In the exchange of fire that followed a sentry, Makhan Singh, was killed. He, however, gunned down one of the militants, officials said. Four BSF personnel, including two sub-inspectors, were injured in the attack.

The Jamiatul Mujahideen has owned responsibility for the attack. In another incident, two armymen were killed and four others injured when militants lobbed a grenade at the Army personnel in Lal Mandi area of civil lines.

The personnel were buying vegetables when the grenade exploded.

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