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Five CRPF jawans killed in fidayeen attack by Hizbul in Srinagar

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



"It was a guerrilla attack carried out by a special squad formed for the purpose," Hizb spokesman Baleeguddin said in a telephonic call to the news agency.



Looking like other boys playing cricket at the school ground, the militants removed their jackets after they entered the field, lobbed several grenades and fired indiscriminately from their AK-47s concealed in their kits to inflict the causalities before they were killed in the gunbattle.

"Five jawans have been martyred and seven (jawans) have been injured," IGP (Kashmir) Abdul Gani Mir told reporters at the scene of attack. The school was luckily closed due to strike called by separatists in support of their demand for return of mortal remains of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru.

The CRPF camp at Bemina is surrounded by the Police Public School and many government buildings.

"There is a ground for Police Public School in Pirampura police station. Now some boys were playing cricket there. The CRPF jawans deployed in the adjacent area were in the standby," Singh said, adding two terrorists carrying kit bags came, took out AK-47s and started firing and lobbed hand grenades. Chief minister Omar Abdullah told the state Assembly the strike was a 'fidayeen' attack.

Today's incident is the first suicide attack in Kashmir in the last three years with the last such attack having taken place in January 2010.

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