| The siege of a security forces camp in Jammu and Kashmir finally ended after about 30 hours yesterday as paramilitary forces shot dead two separatists after having lost five of their own men. Security personnel combing the camp in Sopore town, 55km from here, located the bodies of the two militants who had stormed it at 6 a.m. on Friday taking the 25-odd inmates completely unawares. The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) lost five of its men as fighting erupted early on Friday in the complex that the CRPF mans along with the elite Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police. "The operation has ended," a senior police officer told IANS on telephone from Baramulla district where Sopore is located. Yesterday, Indian soldiers entered the ground floor of the camp where the two militants had taken cover after storming it hurling grenades and firing automatics. |