Security forces on Thursday said they had arrested
a Pakistani suicide bomber of the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) outfit in
Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir.
Military spokesman S.D. Goswami told IANS from
Udhampur that the army and police caught Mohammad Sadiq Gujjar, 17, who
had carried out an attack three months back on an army camp in Kupwara
district.
He was accompanied by three associates who were killed in the November attack.
Gujjar, son of Walid Mohammad Gujjar, was a resident of Sialkot Daska in Pakistan.
"The terrorist was part of the four fidayeen who
carried out the attack on the army camp at Tanghdar on November 25," the
spokesman said.
"He has told his interrogators that he set fire to
an oil depot inside the army camp and destroyed several vehicles before
he was ordered by his colleagues to leave.
"The fidayeen told his interrogators that the JeM
militants were launched from Athmuqam in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and
was tasked to attack any army camp near the LoC (Line of Control)," the
spokesman said.
"The group, with the help of GPS, crossed the
border on foot on November 24 night and continued to walk till they
reached the Tanghdar army camp after six-seven hours," he told the
interrogators.
After the attack, Gujjar fled to nearby forests
and was in hiding for three days. He was asked by his handlers to go to
Kupwara. He changed his clothes and boarded a van from Tanghdar, with
his weapon concealed.
He reached Kupwara and befriended some people who helped him to travel to Baramulla where he was arrested.
Coming from a well-off farmer's family in Sialkot,
Gujjar has five brothers and two sisters. He was lured by his school
friend, who is also a JeM militant, to take to militancy.
Gujjar said he got three months training in a JeM camp.
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