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Six policemen killed in attack
on police station in Poonch

Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar

Six policemen were killed and one was critically wounded when some fidayeens belonging to the Lashkar-e-Tayiba group attacked a police station in Poonch in Jammu region on Thursday night.

Senior police and army officers, who reached the spot early on Friday morning, have ordered searches in Poonch town and its outskirts.

The fidayeens (members of a suicide squad), senior police officials said, forced their entry into the police station around midnight after killing the police guard.

The militants, dressed in army fatigues, were armed with automatic guns.

Six cops died in the attack and one was wounded. The militants managed to escape under the cover of darkness.

Orders have now been issued to beef up security around police stations in Jammu.

Meanwhile, security forces conducting searches in the forest area near Supwal in Jammu on Thursday night came under heavy fire from militants. Two armymen died, while three others were wounded, in the exchange of fire that followed.

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