SRINAGAR, March 30: Indian soldiers on Wednesday shot dead two Mujahideen in occupied Kashmir after they tried to storm into a fortified military camp with explosives strapped to their bodies, police said. An Indian trooper also died when the militants fired at sentries while attacking the post of the Border Security Force (BSF) near the northern Kashmiri town of Sopore, a police spokesman said.

Another trooper was injured in the shootout which lasted around 15 minutes outside the camp, said BSF Deputy Inspector-General K. Srinivasan. “The two militants came in a vehicle at around 10:50 am (0520 GMT) to the main gates of the BSF’s 112 Battalion, lobbed a grenade and fired indiscriminately at the guards manning the sentry post,” he said.

The sentries fired back, triggering a gunbattle in which the raiders and a guard died, the official said. Srinivasan said the two dead militants had explosives and hand grenades strapped to their bodies for an apparent suicide attack.—AFP