New Delhi: Members of a local family have shared chilling details of their brief run-in with a terror suspect on the night of July 15 when security forces in Jammu's Doda chased some terrorists into dense forests and later had an encounter, in which four soldiers including an Army officer lost their lives.
"While I was sleeping inside my house, somebody started banging at my door. I assumed it was my father. But, when I opened the door, he was someone else. I quickly closed the door. I was terrified, my mother and children also got frightened. I called up my brother, who along with Bhabhi (sister-in-law) quickly rushed to our help," a woman member of the family told IANS, recalling the frightening moments.
"I didn’t have any word with the terror suspect but he was wearing a grey-colour T-shirt," she said. The woman's brother said that he challenged and punched the suspicious-looking man knocking at the house door following which he ran away into the nearby forests.
"When I received a call from my sister about some suspicious man trying to break into the house at around 5 a.m., I quickly reached there. I saw a tall person standing at the door. When I asked his identity, he said that it was his house. I punched him in the face but he skirted my blow. When I picked up a stone to hit him, he ran into the forests," he said.