One militant still holed up in Sunjwan camp

The army said on Monday that a search operation is underway in Sunjwan camp in Jammu, as one militant was still holed up inside the compound, three days after an attack left 10 people dead.

"One militant is still holed up inside the camp and efforts are on to neutralise him," a defence ministry official was quoted by local media as having said.

Five soldiers, three militants and one civilian have lost their lives, so far, in the operation which erupted at 4.55 am on Saturday after an unknown number of fidayeen (suicide) militants, stormed the army camp on the outskirts of Jammu city.

Ten people, including Lt Col Rohit Solanki and Major Avijit Singh of 6th Mahar regiment, women and children, were also injured in the gun battle, as elite IAF commandos flanked by armoured vehicles continued their searches in the sprawling compound on the third day on Monday.

Reports said several blasts were heard inside the camp late on Sunday night, but the army said the blasts were the result of sanitisation operation and there was no fresh contact with terrorists.

Meanwhile, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) spokesperson Abdullah Ghaznavi in a statement to a local news gathering agency GNS claimed the responsibility for the Sunjwan attack.

"Despite the claims of 'Operation All Out' by Ajit Doval, Rajnath Singh, Narendra Modi and (Gen) Bipin Rawat, the Indian forces are biting the dust, be it in the form of bullets by freedom fighters or stones thrown at them by people," the GNS quoted the LeT spokesperson as saying.

The LeT also claimed responsibility for the Karan Nagar attack in Srinagar.

"The freedom fighters of Lashkar-e-Taiba continue to seize control of the stronghold in Karan Nagar (Srinagar). If India has any guts to face the Mujahideen, we invite you to fight! But we believe that it is the worst coward military army in the world," it claimed.