The entire area has been cordoned off as security forces are engaging heavily with the terrorists.The entire area has been cordoned off as security forces are engaging heavily with the terrorists.Police officials here confirmed that the trio has been cornered in the top floor of the building.However, in their attempt to overrun the building, two Army captains Pawan Kumar and Tushar Mahajan and corporal Om Prakash laid down their lives. After the troops stormed the building, the militants scattered and then started moving from room to room and floor to floor.

The light artillery fire is aimed mainly at the top floor of the main block at J&K Entrepreneurship Development Institute (JK EDI) campus where the militant trio was earlier restricted to by Army troops including crack teams from its Para Special Force. Earlier on Saturday the militants believed to be one local and two foreigners had ambushed a Srinagar-bound convoy of CRPF killing two jawans and and injuring nine others.The gunmen then entrenched themselves in the main block of the campus. Before the troops stormed the premises around noon on Sunday, the militants were advantageously positioned in the main concrete multi-storey block China Aluminum scaffolding tower suppliers at the campus.The firing which had stopped at nightfall on Sunday resumed with the first light on Monday. The troops stormed the building around noon on Sunday and then using their highly specialised combat skills began securing the floors one after one.. They were quickly surrounded by security forces from Army, CRPF and J&K police’s counterinsurgency Special Operations Group (SOG). Heavy firing and shelling is underway and loud booms are heard at a distance.Army has also used Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) fitted with cameras to know the position of militants

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