Srinagar: Three terrorists were gunned down in a fierce gun battle with the security forces in Jammu & Kashmir's Kathua on Friday. The terrorists had executed twin terror attacks in Jammu where one person was killed and three others were injured early on Friday morning.
Early in the morning, the heavily armed terrorists stopped a Mahindra Bolero car on the Jammu-Pathankote highway and abducted the driver and drove to an Army camp near the Pakistan border and started firing indiscriminately. One army jawan was killed, along with two civilian, including the driver of the car, the terrorists had slashed his throat.
"Three persons wearing Army uniform intercepted a SUV, forced out the occupants and opened fire on them at Tarnah Nallah bridge in Dayala Chak belt of Kathua district around 0500 hours", a police officer said.
Janglote is an artillery rocket regiment and the camp is a off the highway. The terrorists are heavily armed and are throwing grenades at the camp. They are carrying automatic weapons. Nearly 700 soldiers are present in the Army camp in Kathua.
The injured were shifted to Government Medical College Hospital, police said, adding a high alert has been sounded by the security agencies.
The Jammu-Punjab border has been sealed and heavy security has been deployed at Army camps and important places in Kathua, Samba and Jammu districts.
This is the second major terror attack in Kathua district. On September 26, 2013, three heavily-armed terrorists had attacked a police station and an Army camp in the border districts of Kathua and Samba, killing ten people, including four policemen and a Army officer.
An outfit calling itself the 'Shohada Brigade' had claimed responsibility for the twin terror attacks. However, security forces believe the Lashkar-e-Toiba was behind it.
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