Terrorists flee after brief firefight with forces at Jhelum valley medical college hospital in Srinagar: Police

SRINAGAR: In a significant development, terrorists managed to escape from Jhelum valley medical college hospital at Bemina on Friday afternoon when security forces surrounded to apprehend the terrorists
However, the terrorists, who according to sources, had come for medical treatment to the hospital escaped after exchanging fire briefly with the security forces, police said here.
Srinagar police in a Tweet said that there was a brief exchange of fire between militants and security forces at SKIMS (JVC) hospital at Bemina in Srinagar.
Police also said that the terrorists managed to escape, taking advantage of the civilian presence in the hospital.
“There was a brief firefight between terrorists and security forces at SKIMS Hospital, Bemina. Terrorists managed to escape taking advantage of civilian presence,” Srinagar police Tweeted.
However, one civilian identified as 19 year Masood Ahmad(19) resident of Doda, received bullet injuries in the right arm and leg and is currently being treated at JVC hospital.
This second time that the terrorists escaped from the hospital. A Pakistani terrorist namely Naveed Jhatt on February 6. 2018 escaped from police custody from SMHS hospital where he was got by the jail authorities for treatment. The Pakistani terrorists were helped by local Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists in the mission to escape from the police custody.
Jatta, a top Lashkar terrorist killed two cops of J&K police namely constable Mushtaq Ahmad and constable Babar Ahmad. However, Jatt was also killed in an encounter along with his accomplice later in November 2018
Reports however suggest that there are over two dozen sleeper cells in operation in Srinagar city who are on the mission of target killing of the civilians. Interestingly, these sleeper cells composed of highly motivated young boys attack the civilians with small weapons like pistols etc., and escape in the crowd in the localities.