JeM Militants Killed At Jammu Toll Plaza Carried Ammo That Could Pierce Bulletproof Vehicles news18.com

Three JeM militants, killed in a gunfight near a toll plaza here, had left an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) under a hoarding on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway which another member of the module was to use to target security forces, police said on Saturday. The Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militants also carried 'armoured piercing steel core ammunition' which can go through Level 3 protection bulletproof vehicles that police and other security forces use, they said.

The ammunition was in large quantity and could have posed a grave threat, top police officials said. The militants were killed in a fierce gunbattle with police at Bann Toll Plaza near Nagrota, about 28km from Jammu city, officials said. The operation was called off after eliminating all the three militants but vigilance will still be carried out in the area, they added. The truck-borne men carried with them a powerful ready-to-use IED from across the border to carry out an attack against the security forces on the highway, they said. They had "dumped it at a convenient location" near a hoarding on the highway to be used by a third person of their module, who is currently in Jammu, they said.