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Militants vow to disrupt I-Day celebrations

Hardline Kashmiri guerilla groups said they would launch 'massive attacks' against security forces in Kashmir on Tuesday when India celebrates its Independence Day.

"Our mujahideen will launch massive and fierce attacks on the military concentrations in Kashmir to turn India's Independence Day into destruction day," Harkat-ul-Mujahideen spokesman Amiruddin Mughal said in Muzaffarabad (Pakistan occupied Kashmir) on Monday.

He said the operations would target army camps and convoys 'to make it clear to New Delhi that none of its installations and troops in Kashmir are safe'.

A spokesman for the Lashkar-e-Tayiba group said suicide squads had been assigned missions to sabotage I-Day celebrations and attack troops and military installations.

"We will give a big surprise notwithstanding the tight security arrangements on the part of New Delhi," the spokesman who identified himself as Habibullah said.

Meanwhile, security forces busted two militant hideouts and seized a big cache of explosives in Kalaroos and Cherkote areas of the frontier district of Kupwara.

The cache included 50 kilograms of explosives, 50 anti-tank grenades, 40 anti-personnel mines, 50 rifle grenades, two rockets, a booster charger and 26 detonators, an official spokesman said.

However, no one was arrested in this connection, he said.

In Jammu division, security forces recovered Improvised Explosive Devices and other explosives meant to disrupt I-Day functions, official reports said. Also, three civilians and an ultra were killed in two separate militancy-related incidents.

Suspected militants killed three civilians at Kotdara area of Rajouri district on Sunday night. One unidentified militant was killed in an encounter with security forces at Sanachuda in Bhillawer tehsil and an assault rifle, four magazines and a radio set recovered from the spot, reports from Kathua district headquarters said.

In a search operation in Sangoit village of Rajouri, the army recovered large quantity of explosives, including 98 IEDs with detonators and 10 hand grenades on Sunday night. They were to be used to disrupt I-Day functions, the reports said.

Police foiled a militant bid to trigger a bomb blast at Narwal Mandi in Jammu city by defusing a high power IED shaped into a coconut, on Sunday night, the reports said.

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