Two ‘fidayeen’ militants and four squaddies were killed for the interval of a pre-ruin of day lisp by the militants to storm an Military camp within the Pir Panjal valley’s Rajouri district on Thursday morning. Two squaddies were moreover injured for the interval of the come across.
“In the early hours of August 11, alert sentries of the Indian Military put up at Parghal, Rajouri, detected suspicious persons approaching their put up taking excellent thing regarding the inclement climate and dense foliage. The sentries challenged the 2 terrorists who threw grenade whereas attempting to operate entry contained within the put up,” Defence spokesman Lt. Colonel Devender Anand acknowledged.
The Military acknowledged the alert troops cordoned off the spot and engaged the terrorists in a firefight, thereby pinning them. “In the following come across, two terrorists were neutralised,” Lt. Col. Anand acknowledged.
On the opposite hand, four squaddies of the Indian Military moreover lost their lives for the interval of the operation whereas two were injured. The deceased squaddies were identified as Subedar Rajendra Prasad from Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu, Rifleman Lakshmanan D. from Tamil Nadu’s Madurai, Rifleman Manoj Kumar from Haryana’s Faridabad and Rifleman Nishant Malik from Haryana’s Hisar.
Rajouri, home to dense forests, is shut to the Line of Alter (LoC). The assault took keep round 26 km faraway from the district headquarters in Darhal tehsil.
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