SRINAGAR: Police have arrested a third person in connection with the suicide attack on the CRPF camp at Bemina that killed five soldiers on Wednesday.
Pradeep Singh, a government employee was nabbed by the police in Baramulla area of Kashmir on Saturday for allegedly providing logistic help to militants in the attack on the CRPF camp.
Singh is the third person to be arrested by the police since the suicide attack.
On Thursday police claimed to have arrested two people, one of them a Pakistani militant who they believe is a member of the Lashkar-e-Toiba.
They said on specific information, the militant in his late 20s, codenamed Abu Talha, was arrested with a loaded pistol during a dramatic raid. The other person is a local former militant from Uri, according to unconfirmed reports.
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said in parliament on Thursday that the two militants killed in Wednesday’s attack appeared to be of Pakistani origin, and the diaries recovered from them contained Pakistani phone numbers.
Pakistan has said it “condemns such actions of terrorism in the strongest possible terms and calls upon the government of India to carry out a thorough investigation… before levelling such accusations which are counter-productive and serve no purpose”.
The Hizb-ul Mujahideen militant group said it had carried out the attack and threatened more violence.
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(with inputs from Agencies)
