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Suicide attacks in Jammu and Kashmir,
2007
 
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June 1
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Two soldiers died and 16 others
inured in an encounter with two suicide squad (Fidayeen)
cadres of the LeT follwing their attack on the Army convoy
as well as STC of the J&K Police at Sheeri in the Baramulla
district. Both the terrorists were also killed in the gun-battle.
LeT spokesman, Abdullah Ghaznavi, claimed that the incident
at Sheeri was his group’s Fidayeen attack. He claimed
that five police personnel and six soldiers of the army
were killed and 15 more injured and confirmed that both
the suicide squad cadres were killed in the operation.
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July 26
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In a
Fidayeen attack, SFs killed both the militants at an
encampment on the premises of Bhaba Atomic Research Centre
at Zakoora on the outskirts of capital Srinagar. Director
General of Police, Kuldeep Khoda, informed that two LeT militants
made an unsuccessful attempt to sneak into a formation of
the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force at the defunct
BARC facility at Zakoora. Both the militants, who emerged
from a deserted orchard, lobbed hand grenades and opened gunfire
on the pillboxes in the rear of the camp. Even as eight soldiers
sustained injuries, the troops shot dead both the militants
and also recovered two AK-56 rifles and three hand grenades
from their possession. He said that one of the slain militants
was identified as Feroz Ahmed Khan, a resident of Kangan in
the Kashmir valley, and another was believed to be a Pakistani
national. A LeT spokesman, Abdullah Ghaznavi claimed responsibility
of the two-and-a-half-hour-long attacks and reportedly identified
the slain militants as Feroz Khan alias Abu Muslim and a "guest
militant" Abu Ma'az. |
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11-12 |
Two suicide
bombers were killed and three paramilitary personnel wounded
in a suicide attack on a CRPF camp near the Dal Lake in capital
Srinagar. The two heavily armed suicide militants entered
into the makeshift battalion headquarters of the CRPF on October
11. Police and CRPF personnel on October 12 killed the two
suicide bombers. The spokesman of the LeT, Abdullah Ghaznavi,
in a satellite telephonic conversation from Pakistan claimed
that a suicide squad from his group had stormed the camp. |
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Source: Constructed from media reports
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