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HELD SRINAGAR: Security forces remained unsuccessful even after 50 hours to break the siege on a government building in Indian Occupied Kashmir’s Pampore area.
Two attackers inside the building have been killed whereas one armed attacker is still present inside, Indian media reported.
To confront the attackers, special troops of the Indian Army, paramilitary forces and police are present in the area. However, the officials have not yet cleared the building even after three days. According to the Indian media, heavy fire was exchanged between the attackers and forces on Tuesday.
Explosions were also heard whereas one army soldier was reportedly injured. This is the second time the three-building complex has come under attack this year, after at least a three-day-long gunfight in February left three military commandos dead among seven persons.
Meanwhile, two paramilitary troopers of India’s Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and eight civilians were wounded on Tuesday in a grenade attack in the restive Occupied Kashmir, police said. The grenade attack was carried out in Shopian town, about 48 kms south of Srinagar, the summer capital of IoK.
“Today unknown militants hurled a grenade on CRPF party at a marketplace in Shopian, which exploded on the road wounding two CRPF men and eight civilian pedestrians,” a police official said. “The wounded were immediately removed to hospital for treatment.”
Officials said police and the CRPF contingents cordoned off the area and launched a manhunt to nab the militants. However, there were no reports of arrests until late. So far no militant outfit has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Meanwhile, anxious to quell anti-India protests in IoK, Indian security forces are carrying out their most severe crackdown in more than two decades against civilian protesters, arresting more than 8,000 this summer across the disputed Himalayan territory, police said on Monday.
That includes 450 or so civilians being held possibly for up to six months without trial under a harsh security law criticised as a human rights violation. India says pro-freedom groups and civilians who help them are undermining the country’s territorial integrity and forcing authorities to keep IoK under tight control.
This is so far the biggest crackdown on miscreants, said a senior police officer requesting anonymity. For weeks, the Indian authorities have carried out night-time raids, rolling curfews and stops at roadblocks but failed to stop attacks and angry public rallies.
