Pampore Attack
Lashker militants behind attack in Pampore: IGP
Srinagar/UNI: Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) militants, including a foreigner, were involved in the attack on a patrol party in which two CRPF personnel were killed and three others were injured at Pampore in south Kashmir on Monday, a senior police officer said this afternoon.
Two motorcycle borne LeT militants attacked CRPF personnel at Kandizal, Pampore, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said at the incident spot.
He said both the militants have been identified and a massive hunt has been launched to neutralize them. One of the militant was Saifullah , a Pakistani national while another was a local, he said.
Kumar said militants find it easy to target security forces on the highway which remained busy with hundreds of civilian vehicles. He said if security forces would retaliate there is threat of civilian causality adding because of this militants are managing to escape after the attack.
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