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| Day-long gunfight with 5 ultras who Saturday killed 2 TA men at Gool | | ** Army helicopter drops commandos in vicinity of militants' hideout to hunt them down | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 03:
Braving inclement weather, security forces today trapped the five Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants, including outfit's commander Abu Moosa, in the densely forested and snow-covered mountains of Kharawa, 5 km east of Bhimdasa near Gool in Ramban, and engaged them in a gunbattle.
Moosa and his four accomplices had Saturday killed 163 TA Bn jawans -- Mohammad Sharief and Mohammad Khalil -- in the Kharawa forests where they had gone on a specific information about the presence of militants.
Police sources said acting on a tip-off that the five militants were perched in a hideout in the Kharawa woods, a joint column of police and 58 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) laid a cordon around the area early in the morning.
While the jawans were making way through the snow to raid the hideout, they came under heavy fire from the militants at about 9.10 am. Fire was returned.
A fierce gunbattle ensued that lasted over an hour or so, sources said and added that the intermittent exchange of fire between the two sides, however, continued till 5.30 pm.
The militants also fired a grenade towards the jawans at about 5 pm, but it exploded in noman's land without causing any harm to the troops. Sources said while the exchange of fire was in progress in the afternoon, army helicopter was twice pressed into service to find out the exact location of the militants.
On the basis of inputs provided by those in the chopper, army fired rocket launchers towards the militants. However, these hit the target, or not was not immediately known, the sources added. Sources said in the third sortie in the evening, the helicopter
dropped commandos in the vicinity of the place where the militants were suspected to be hiding to block their escape routes and also for their early killing.
Additional troops had also been despatched to the area. The militants were still in the jawans' cordon and they were likely to be killed, the sources added. Sources said not a single shot had been fired by the militants after 5.30 pm.
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