Security officials during an encounter with militants who attacked a police station at Dinanagar in Gurdaspur district on Monday. (Photo: DC/PTI)
Gurdaspur: Security forces fought a prolonged gunfight Monday with militants who attacked a moving bus and stormed into a police station in Dinanagar, a northern town bordering Pakistan, with at least nine people killed in the violence, officials said.
The attackers killed at least seven people - civilians and policemen - in the pre-dawn attack in Punjab, said Harcharan Singh Bains, a state government spokesman.
The terrorists, suspected to be members of either Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) or Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), in army fatigues first targeted a roadside eatery, then sprayed bullets on a passenger bus and later barged into the Dinanagar police station.
Seven persons--three civilians, Superintendent of Police (Detective), Baljit Singh, a Punjab provincial service officer, three home guards were killed by the terrorists, said GP Punjab Police Sumedh Singh Saini, who led the operation against the terrorists holed up in an abandoned building near the police station.
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