LeT claim responsibility for recent terror attacks at Sunjuwan Army Camp and Karan Nagar CRPF Camp

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) on Monday claimed the responsibility of the recent terror attacks at Sunjuwan Army Camp and Karan Nagar CRPF camp.

A CRPF personnel has lost his life in the ongoing encounter at the 23 Bn CRPF camp in Srinagar's Karan Nagar, where two armed-terrorists were spotted in the wee hours of Monday.

Earlier on Saturday, terrorists barged into the Sunjuwan army camp in Jammu, killing five security personnel and one civilian. Six army personnel and six civilians are injured.

Four terrorists belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) have been gunned down.

In wake of the continuous terror attacks on the Army and CRPF camp in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Defence Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday left for Jammu to assess the security situation in the state.

Meanwhile, a CRPF personnel has lost his life in the ongoing encounter at the 23 Bn CRPF camp in Srinagar's Karan Nagar, where two armed-terrorists were spotted in the wee hours of Monday morning.

The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly observed a two-minute silence in memory of five Army personnel and a civilian who were killed in a terror strike on the Sunjuwan Army camp here.

A group of Jaish-e-Mohammmad terrorists struck the residential quarter of the sprawling camp in the early hours on Saturday and killed five army personnel and the father of one of the slain jawans, besides injuring 10 others including six women and children.

Three JeM terrorists were gunned down.

National Conference MLA Devender Singh Rana invited the attention of the chair towards the terror attack and suggested for a two-minute silence to pay tributes to those killed.

Accepting the request of the member, Speaker Kavinder Gupta asked for observance of the two-minute silence.

Soon after the House assembled this morning, NC member Mian Altaf sought a detailed statement from the government on the terror strike on the Army camp.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Abdul Rehman Veeri said the operation at Sunjuwan was in its final stage