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Srinagar: In a pre-dawn attack, heavily armed militants targeted an Army camp in Bandipora area of Baramulla district in North Kashmir on July 7, police sources said.

No one was hurt in the attack by unidentified militants on the troops of Rashtriya Rifles camping at Kaloosa village around 2.10 am. Militants fired rockets, grenades and heavy and light arms to target the troops for about half-an-hour, the sources said.

A band-saw belonging to Mohammad Abdullah Khan and a joint residential house of Ghulam Mohammad Dar and his brother Ghulam Hassan Dar were completely damaged in two powerful blasts in the village this morning, the sources said.

The villagers accused Army of blasting the band-saw and the house and roughing up common people in retaliation to the attack on their camp, the sources said.

However, the Army denied the charge and said ultras while fleeing laid three powerful improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to target the troops.

The troops detected the IEDs in time and informed the bomb disposal squad. While two IED's exploded damaging the band-saw and a house, another IED was neutralised by the experts, a Defence spokesman said.

A search operation was launched in the village after the attack, the sources said.

PTI