NEW DELHI, July 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Breaking the security cordon, four unidentified persons, suspected to be militants, gained entry into the disputed Ram Janambhoomi campus in the holy city of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh Tuesday morning and opened fire with police.

    The militants fired indiscriminately, leading to heavy exchangeof fire with security forces in which one of the attackers was killed and another captured, the Press Trust of India quoted localpolice sources as saying.

    The sources said the militants were in a jeep and entered the campus around 9 a.m. The attackers were immediately challenged by security forces, leading to the exchange of fire and it was still on.

    Security forces have cordoned off the entire area and roads leading to the temple town from nearby major city of Faizabad and other adjoining districts have been sealed, the sources said.

    Senior officials, including commissioner of Faizabad, have rushed to the spot, they said.

    Ayodhya is a center of pilgrimage and is one of the seven sitessacred to Hindus. In the late 1980s it became the center of Muslim-Hindu tensions, and in 1992 fundamentalist Hindus pulled down the 16th-century Babri mosque that they alleged stood on the site of Rama's birthplace. The site of the razed mosque remains a source of contention. Enditem