Jammu / New Delhi: Twelve people were killed in a twin terror attack in the Jammu region, casting a shadow on the upcoming meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif.
The BJP, which has been opposing the meeting between the two prime ministers in New York, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, said there was no point in talking to Pakistan, which is a safe haven for the terrorists. “There is no point talking to Sharif as the situation remains the same. The attack happened because Pakistan supports terrorism,” said BJP general secretary Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.
The attack follows a pattern of strikes whenever the two countries have taken an initiative towards dialogue. Militants dressed in army fatigues killed at least nine people in a police station and an army cantonment in Jammu’s Kathua district in the morning. At least five army and four police personnel were killed.
Four policemen were killed in the suicide attack on the Hiranagar police station in Kathua while three army personnel including Lt Col Bikramjeet Singh died in a similar strike shortly afterwards on the army camp at nearby Samba, officials said.
The three militants first barged into the police station near Jammu-Pathankot National Highway around 6.45 am and indiscriminately fired after hurling a grenade, police said. The militants later hijacked a tempo truck on the highway, boarded it and forced its driver to move towards Jammu, police said.
The truck was stopped outside the Army camp at Samba and the militants then opened indiscriminate firing on jawans deployed at its security gate before they stormed the premises.
They barged into the Army Mess where they resorted to heavy indiscriminate firing as troops geared up and retaliated resulting in fierce gunbattle.
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