Two militants yesterday opened fire at an army camp in Indian Kashmir in the second attack against security forces in two days, an army official said, adding to pressure on India’s nationalist government after it swore to end such violence.
Yesterday’s attack happened on the Pathankote-Jammu National Highway, about 20km from the police station in Kathua District where six people, including two militants, were killed in a militant attack on Friday.
Kathua District is about 15km from the border with Pakistan, which India has long blamed for pushing militants into its part of the disputed region.
A gun battle was underway, but there were no army or civilian casualties, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Manish Mehta said.
Security agencies said that they believe the two militants are part of the same group that carried out an attack on Friday.
“Terrorists opened fire from the road and our guard retaliated. We have cordoned the area and they are hiding in nearby bushes adjacent to the army camp,” Mehta said.
The national highway has been closed and state school examinations in the district have been called off.
The previous big attack in Kashmir was in December last year, when militants struck at an army camp in Uri, also near the border with Pakistan, but further up the Kashmir valley.
“Two attacks in two days in same area of Jammu very unusual,” former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah said in a Twitter post.
Pakistan denies allegations that it supports the militants and instead calls for talks to resolve the dispute at the heart of six decades of hostility with India.
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