Militants killed in Nagrota gunfight were planning a big strike: IGP Jammu

Militants killed in Nagrota gunfight were planning a big strike: IGP Jammu

Jammu:  Inspector General of Police Jammu range Mukesh Singh Thursday the four militants killed in the gunfight with government forces in Nagrota on Thursday morning had recently infiltrated from across the border.
He said that the driver of the truck they were travelling in managed to flee from the spot while forces recovered a large quantity of arms and ammunition including 11 AK 47 riffles and 29 grenades.

Addressing a press conference after the gunfight, IGP Jammu said that ever since the announcement for the District Development Council (DDC), police had been receiving inputs about a possible infiltration bid in Jammu.
“We had kept our all teams deployed at naka points. There were intelligence inputs that militants may sneak in along with large quantity of arms and ammunition,” Singh said.

He said at around 5 am, a truck was stopped and when it was searched, the driver stepped out and fled. “During the search of the vehicle, the hiding militants opened a heavy volume of fire that was retaliated. The encounter lasted for three hours. Two policemen sustained injuries and both are stable,” he said.

The IGP Jammu said that four unidentified militants were killed in the gunfight. “All the slain were carrying large quantity of arms and ammunition with them. This is for the first in the past few years that such a large quantity of weapons were recovered from the slain—11 AK riffles, 29 grenades (apart from those lobbed at forces), three pistols, pouches, mobile phones and other incriminating material,” the IGP Jammu said.

Asked about the motive of militants, the IGP said that given the quantity of weapons recovered from the slain, it seems that the group had infiltrated recently and were “planning something very big.” “But their plan stands foiled,” he said, adding that the operation was carried out jointly by police, CRPF and the army. “The sanitization operation is still on and identity and the affiliation of slain militants is being ascertained,” he said.(KNO)

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