Srinagar: Five CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) personnel and two terrorists were killed in an overnight gunbattle inside the para-military force camp on the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar.

Five CRPF personnel were killed when a two-member suicide squad of the al-Mansoorian outfit barged into the camp, housed in Hotel Livard on Tuesday night (Jul 27, 2004), Inspector General of Police K Rajendra Kumar said.

Security forces engaged the terrorists holed up in the camp in a gunbattle that ended early on Wednesday morning with the death of the two terrorists, Kumar said.

One CRPF sub-inspector, a head constable and three constables were killed in the fidayeen attack, Kumar said.The two-member suicide squad had attacked the CRPF camp at around 2040 hrs (IST) on Tuesday.