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Three suicide attackers managed to escape

Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar

Nine policemen and one militant were killed in a 12-hour gun battle inside the Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police Headquarters at Batmallo in Srinagar after a Lashkar-e-Tayiba suicide squad stormed the high-security complex on Friday evening.

A senior police officer admitted that at least three fidayeen (suicide attackers) managed to escape from the complex.

Army troops and specially trained commandos had surrounded the complex soon after the attack and intermittent exchange of fire continued through Friday night and Saturday morning.

Sources said security guards at the main gate were the first casualties when militants lobbed hand-grenades at them before storming the complex.

A Lashkar spokesman said the attack was led by Salah-ud-Din.

An injured cop undergoing treatment in a hospital said four militants came in a white ambassador and were stopped by sentry Bashir Ahmed at the main gate.

When Ahmed asked the occupants of the car for their identity cards, two of them got off and opened fire. The rest of them rushed inside and occupied a building near the gate.

Despite the heavy firing cops managed to take three of their injured colleagues to the police hospital inside the complex.

The other injured, including Superintendent of Police (south) Ramesh Jalla, were taken to the SMHS hospital for treatment.

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