News Desk/Living India : Militants carried out a suicide attack on a BSF camp located to Srinagar International airport, one ASI of security force martyred while other injured. Security forces retaliated severely and gunned down 3 militants and averted more casualties. Pakistan based militant group Jaish-e-Muhammad claimed the responsibility of this suicide attack that shook the Valley.
At the dawn of Tuesday, 3 Shaheed Afzal Guru Squad militants of JeM, armoured with heavy weapons attacked BSF camp. As soon as, BSF realized the suicide attack joint operation started. In security forces joint operation 3 militants gunned down while one ASI of security forces martyred. Search operation is still on the whole area. Security forces are finding the details of the suicide attack.
The Army’s 53 Rajput Rifles, the BSF, Jammu and Kashmir police’s counter-insurgency Special Operations Group (SOG) and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) conducted the joint operation. Home Minister Rajnath Singh complimented the security forces as they eliminated militants involved in the attack. “I have spoken to the DG CRPF and DG BSF. It was a good operation that they have conducted,” told Rajnath Singh to reporters.