DHAKA: Six people including three security personnel were killed and10 others injured as a ‘fidayeen’ squad of militants in Army fatigues stormed a police station in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district in India on Friday.

Two militants were also killed in the subsequent encounter with security forces that ended around noon, reports the Times of India.

“Two militants have been gunned down by our security forces,” Union home minister Rajnath Singh said in the Lok Sabha.

“A civilian who was shot down by militant has our sympathies,” Rajnath Singh said.

This is the first major militant attack in the state since the formation of the PDP-BJP coalition government in the state on March 1.

“It is a fidayeen attack,” IGP Jammu Danish Rana said.

An injured CRPF constable Bharat Prabhu said the militants wearing Army uniforms intercepted a jeep going from Jammu to Pathankot on the pretext of checking the vehicle.

The ultras then hijacked the jeep which had three passengers on board and fled towards the Rajbagh Police Station where they opened fire on a sentry and killed him.

The militants then hurled grenades at the police station and opened indiscriminate fire.

BDST: 1846 HRS, MAR 20, 2015