Ambulances, two-wheelers used in ISJK terror attack seized

SRINAGAR: J&K Police have seized two ambulances of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) besides two two-wheelers used to ferry ISJK terrorists who carried out the May 20 attack on a BSF team in Ganderbal district in Srinagar’s outskirts, in which two jawans were killed, Srinagar SSP Haseeb Mugal said. The attacker duo was later slain in separate encounters.
The ISJK terrorists had come on a motorbike and opened fire at the security personnel from BSF’s 37 Bn in Pandach area. Two jawans were shot dead in their heads from a close range. The assailants managed to escape following the attack.
In the course of the investigation, Soura Police arrested five uncategorized ISJK affiliates — who had helped in transporting the terrorists and provided them logistical support, besides helping them plan and execute the May 20 attack — and subsequently registered a case under relevant sections of the IPC, Arms Act and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
According to the SSP, the case was finally cracked on Friday after the seizure of the vehicles. Cops found that the terrorist associates had used one SKIMS ambulance to transport the two ultras from Bijbehara in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district to Srinagar’s Pandach, after which a motorbike and scooty were used to carry out the attack and escape after looting the weapons of the killed jawans.
“The duo was ferried back to Bijbehara in another SKIMS ambulance the same day that the five ISJK associates were arrested,” SSP Haseeb Mugal said. Later, they were killed in separate anti-terror operations in Srinagar’s Zadibal and Anantnag’s Hatigam, Bijbehara following which the stolen weapons of the slain BSF men were recovered, he added.