The Jihad is back in Jammu and Kashmir. “Terror returns to Jammu,” by Arun Joshi for the Hindustan Times, May 12 (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):
In a dastardly attack, the biggest in Jammu region since 2002, militants struck in the border town of Samba, killing five people, including a woman hostage and a photojournalist.
Two militants holed up in a house were killed on Sunday evening after a fierce, 13-hour encounter. The militants had taken six people, including women and children, hostage….
From within the house, they opened fire and lobbed grenades at the policemen outside. This was followed by a fierce 13-hour encounter. The way the militants were firing through windows and targeting soldiers and policemen, indicated they were trained in urban guerrilla warfare. In a gruesome sight, the militants threw the body of a woman hostage out.
In the gun battle, a soldier and a photojournalist were killed. While the soldier died fighting militants, press photographer Ashok Sodhi of the Daily Excelsior was shot dead when he attempted to take a picture of the house where from militants were firing.