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6 killed in attack on army camp in J&K

Four army soldiers, including a junior commissioned officer and two members of a suicide squad were killed in a fierce gun-battle at Baramullah in north Kashmir, early on Sunday.

Police sources said two militants forced entry into an army camp after hurling grenades and firing heavily from assault rifles. Subsequently, militants attacked the camp from an adjoining hilltop, with rockets, grenades and assault rifles.

Two army soldiers, including a JCO, died on the spot, while six others were wounded in the heavy firing by the militants. The injured army men were shifted to hospital, where sources said two soldiers succumbed to injuries.

The security guards engaged the militants in a fierce four-hour gun-battle. Reinforcements were sent by the army, to seal the area around the camp. The militants continued to fire on the troops in the camp.

The two suicide squad members, police sources said, were killed in the morning by the troops.

Senior army and police officers visited the spot, while troops conducted searches in localities around.

The attack comes a day after militants killed 14 cops in an ambush at Manjakote village in Rajouri district of Jammu region.

The frontline Lashkar-e-Tayiba claimed responsibility for the attack on the police.

Its supreme commander Zaki-Ur-Rahman said militants of the Hizbul Mujaheedin, Jaishe Mohammadi and Hizbi Islami were involved in the attack.

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