JeM claims responsibiility for Kashmir attack

It claimed that three militants stormed the camp immediately after morning prayers and that they had "taken position inside the army installation".

An army barrack goes up in flames after militants attacked an Army camp in Tangdhar sector near the Line of Control using small arms and under barrel grenade launchers. Photo: Special Arrangement

Militant outfit Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), believed to be behind the 2001 Parliament attack, has claimed responsibility for the attack on an army camp in Kupwara this morning. 

It claimed that three militants stormed the camp immediately after the morning prayers and that they had “taken position inside the army installation". 

Speaking to a Srinagar-based news agency, CNS, JeM spokesman Muhammad Hasan Shah said, "Militants managed to inflict heavy damage on the Indian forces."

Known for spectacle attacks and behind introducing fidayeen (suicide) attacks in the valley, the JeM had gone silent in the past few years in the valley with the Lashkar-e-Toiba and indigenous Hizbul Mujahideen dominating the scene.