Srinagar: The Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant outfit claimed responsibility for the attack on the Sunjuwan military station in Jammu in which nine people were killed, including three militants, and a shoot-out near a CRPF camp in Srinagar on Monday.
LeT chief Mehmood Shah said in a statement on Monday that militants of the outfit were involved in both attacks.
The militants had launched a pre-dawn attack on the military station housing soldiers of the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry’s 36th Brigade and their families on Saturday.
A soldier’s father and five military personnel were killed in the assault that continued till Sunday night, while about a dozen people were wounded. A constable was killed in a separate attack on a CRPF camp in the Karan Nagar area of Srinagar early Monday.