By AN ARMY officer, 2 troopers, and a Border personnel (BSF) personnel lost their lives in an exceedingly fierce scrap early Sunday on the road of management (LoC) within which 3 militants, World Health Organization were making an attempt to enter the depression through the Machil sector in north Kashmir’s Kupwara, were killed, officers same. 2 troopers were additionally livid within the firing, they said.
Chinar Corps, the official Twitter handle of fifteen Corps, known those killed as Capt Ashutosh Kumar, Havildar Praveen Kumar and Rifleman Ryada Maheshwar. “The gallant troopers created the supreme sacrifice in (the) line of duty at Machil sector, Kupwara on Nov eight. Deepest condolences to the sorrowing families,” the tweet same.
The BSF same its trooper Constable Sudip Kumar (38), a resident of West Tripura, “attained martyrdom” when he “kept on fighting until his last breath with exemplary courage” and “with utter disregard to his personal safety”. It same Pakistani posts “started ceasefire violation in support of the infiltrating terrorists”.
The Army same the face-off occurred in 2 bursts, 9 hours apart. Late Sabbatum night, they said, a BSF patrol noticed the militants concealed in from across the border and challenged them. The militants opened fireplace in response, triggering a gunbattle within which one militant and Constable Kumar were killed.
It same the second scrap poor out when a lot of troops, World Health Organization were rush in to comb the realm, confronted the militants. during this exchange, the officer, 2 troopers and 2 militants were killed.
“At regarding 0100 hrs, a BSF patrol detected suspicious movement close to the opposing Infiltration Obstacle System (AIOS) (LoC fence) regarding three.5 kilometer from the LoC. A firefight ensued within which one terrorist was killed. A BSF soldier was additionally killed in action. The firefight stopped at 0400 hrs. a lot of troops were rush to the realm and also the terrorist movement was half-tracked by police investigation devices,” a Defence advocator same in Srinagar.
“Contact was re-established at one020 hrs once serious fireplace was drawn by own search parties or so 1.5 kilometer from the LoC. within the succeeding firefight, 2 a lot of terrorists were killed. Own troops suffered 3 casualties and 2 (were) livid. The livid troopers are exhausted,” the advocator same.
The Army same it recovered 2 Last Frontier rifles, a pistol, a hi fi, rounds of ammunition and Rs fifty,000 in money from the slain militants.
A BSF advocator said: “On difficult the intruders, they opened fireplace, that was appropriately retaliated by the BSF party. within the fierce exchange of fireside, one terrorist was shot dead now et al managed to cover behind the duvet of undulating parcel of land.”
The scrap is that the second on the LoC this year of such intensity when 5 elite paratroopers and 5 militants were killed within the neighboring Keran sector of Kupwara in April.
