Srinagar/Islamabad, Mar 13: Five jawans were killed today when two militants stormed a CRPF camp near a school in Bemina area in the heart of the city in the first suicide attack in Kashmir in three years in which the terrorists were suspected to be from Pakistan.
However, a pro-Pakistan militant group HizbulMujahideen claimed responsibility and threatened to repeat the attacks in future.
The two 'fidayeens' (suicide militants), who entered the Police Public School ground in the guise of playing cricket, were eliminated during a 30-minute gunbattle following the terror attack in which 18 people, 15 jawans and three civilians, were also injured. Five jawans and the three civilians were out of danger, officials said.
"Prima facie the terrorists don't appear to be local but from across the border and first impressions are that they are possibly from Pakistan," Union home secretary R K Singh said in New Delhi.
In Srinagar, a spokesman from the Hizbul Mujahideen group called a local news agency to claim responsibility for the attack that began at 10:45 am and threatened more such attacks in the future.
