SRINAGAR: The three-day long encounter between militants and security forces at multi-storey J&K Government’s Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI) at Sempora, Pampora in outskirt of Srinagar ended on Wednesday afternoon with killing of both the militants.
“The three-day long gunfight between holed-up militants and security forces ended this afternoon,” GoC Victor Force Ashok Narula told reporters outside EDI building.
He said two militants have been killed and two weapons recovered from them.
An army official said one of the militant was killed yesterday evening while another was killed in gunfight with security forces inside the building this morning.
“The second militant was killed in a gunfight with para commandos and paramilitary CRPF men, who had entered the EDI building to flush out the militants,” the official said.
An army man was injured in the initial gunfire of militants on Sunday morning and since then security forces were moving cautiously and playing a waiting game.
The security forces had fired hundreds of rockets, grenades and mortar shells and used over a dozen Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) during past three days to soften the militants, who had taken over control of the seven-storey concrete EDI building in the early hours of Sunday.
After the gunfight ended, security personnel were conducting searches in the building.
GoC Victor Force said search operation of the building is going on.
The attack on EDI building is the second militant attack on the building in eight months. Earlier, in February this year, three militants had stormed the three-storey EDI building. In the three day-long long encounter, two army captains, a para commando, two paramilitary CRPF men and a civilian besides all three attackers were killed. It was one of the longest encounters in the Valley.