Armymen display arms and ammunition recovered from three slain ultras in Langate. Mohd Amin War

Srinagar, October 6

Seven terrorists were killed in two operations even as the Army today foiled a Uri-type attack on one of its counter-insurgency battalion headquarters in Kupwara, killing three heavily armed terrorists.In their early 20s and equipped with GPS devices and maps, the terrorists tried to sneak into the well-fortified headquarters of 30 Rashtriya Rifles at Langate along the Baramulla- Handwara highway in the wee hours. The attack was repulsed.  “Alert sentries spotted three terrorists within the camp periphery. When challenged, they opened  fire. Our quick reaction team ensured that they did not escape,” the Commanding Officer, Col Rajiv Saharan, said. Claiming the three terrorists were Pakistanis, he said three AK-47 rifles and ammunition were found at the encounter site. “We recovered GPS, maps, radio sets, medicines and food items. The medicines had Pakistani markings on them,” he said. The terrorists tried to scale the rear fence and breach security by opening fire at multiple points. “They had crossed one security barrier before they were noticed. The gunfight lasted two hours,” a police officer said. The Army also repulsed three infiltration bids, two in Nowgam in Kupwara district and another in Rampur in Baramulla sector, killing four infiltrators in Nowgam. — TNS