J&K: Security forces neutralise 2 terrorists who entered DPS at Pantha Chowk in Srinagar, 14-hour-long operation ends
Encounter Between Security Forces And Terrorists Breaks Out At Pantha Chowk In Srinagar. Firing Is Currently Underway. More Details Are Awaited On This.
Two terrorists who holed up in DPS school in Srinagar since Saturday have been neutralized by security forces on Sunday. The 14-hour-long operation ends.
The militants had entered the Delhi Public School located close to the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway last evening after attacking a CRPF party in the nearby Pantha Chowk, killing one officer and injuring a constable.
The road opening party of the CRPF was attacked in high security zone located less than a kilometre away from the headquarter of the Srinagar-based Army Corps.
Immediately thereafter, the security forces cordoned off the school premises which has seven buildings, comprising 36 rooms, and the staff and others were evacuated last night itself.
An offensive to flush out the militants was launched this morning, a police official said.
“The exchange of fire between security forces and militants began at around 3.40 am,” he said.
“The gunbattle is over and two militants have been killed,” the official said this evening after over 14-hour armed engagement.
He said the search and sanitization operation was, however, underway at the encounter site.
Two Army personnel were injured in the gunbattle this morning, the official said. He said the injured have been taken to a hospital.
Earlier, Jammu and Kashmir’s Director General of Police S P Vaid had said that there were reports of the presence of two militants inside the building but the exact number would be known after the search of the complex was over.
On the operation getting prolonged, he told reporters, “There are 36 rooms, the building is huge. So, it has to be searched floor by floor, room by room.”
He said the security forces wanted to ensure that the (school) building was safe.
“The enemy has a nefarious design that the school buildings are destroyed and children have nothing to study and ultimately abandon their studies, which we will ensure that no such thing happens,” the state police chief said.
He was speaking to the media on the sidelines of wreath laying ceremony of CRPF officer killed in yesterday’s attack.
The authorities had imposed restrictions under section 144 CrPc from Ram Munshibagh to Sempora stretch of the national highway as a precautionary measure to avoid protests near the encounter site.
The mobile internet services have been affected across the valley as the network speeds have been reduced.
With PTI inputs
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