Security forces had set up the temporary check post at Sempora in Pampore on the highway following information that some terrorists could be travelling from Anantnag district to Srinagar. The militants on board lobbed a grenade and then fired on the security forces in a bid to flee from the spot.
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Police officials said that a Tata Mobile vehicle was signaled to halt at a nakka laid by JK Police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) near Entrepreneurship Development Institute on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway, but militants present in the vehicle resorted to firing on the forces.
Officials said that the clash took place at Sempora on the outskirts of Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar after some car-borne men opened fire at a local police’s counterinsurgency Special Operations Group (SoG) being assisted by the CRPF. Two civilians, including a woman, were also injured in the exchange of gunfire.
The police suspect that the terrorists were trying to enter Srinagar to carry out an attack. Witnesses added that hundreds of people from Khrew, Drangabal and Kadlabal Pampore marched towards Police Station Pampore on Wednesday morning demanding the bodies of the militants.
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“This sparked of a brief gunfight, in which two militants were killed and two AK-47 rifles recovered”, said the police officer. They might have been upto something. Six CRPF troopers were injured in the incident.
