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| Army kills 7 Pak terrorists in north Kashmir | | Foils 3 infiltration bids | | S. Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
Baramulla, Oct 6: Army on Thursday gunned down seven terrorists in two encounters in north Kashmir's Kupwara district, officials said.
They said three terrorists wearing army uniforms tried to enter into the Army's 30 Rashtriya Rifle (RR) camp in Langate area. The terrorists were spotted challenged by the alert soldiers following which terrorists opened fire which was retaliated triggering a gunfight. The encounter lasted for more than three hours and ended with killing of all the terrorists.
The official said that, the terrorists had cut off the fencing and were trying to enter into the camp.
Briefing the media on the operation, Commanding Officer Colonel Rajiv Sharang said the three terrorists were challenged by jawans after they noticed suspicious movement near the perimeter fencing of the camp. "Three terrorists were seen near the perimeter fencing of our camp. Our sentries challenged them. They fired heavily on our sentry posts. We also retaliated and then a quick reaction team was activated so that the terrorists do not flee the area where they were spotted. We used illumination rounds to illuminate the area and killed all the three terrorists," Col Sharang told reporters at Langate.
The Army officer said the security forces recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from the slain terrorists. The recoveries included three AK rifles, three Under Barrel Grenade Launchers, a number of magazines, significant rounds of bullets, 4 walkie talkie radio sets, three GPS devices, three mobile phones, dry fruits and medicines besides a map and a matrix sheet.
"The medicine which has been recovered from all three terrorists has Pakistani marking. This establishes that all three terrorists were Pakistanis," Col Sharang said.
"The maps and the matrix sheet, which they were using, is being analysed. If we come to know more from it, we will let you know," he added.
Asked whether there could have been more terrorists in the area, Col Sharang said, "There could have been more but we had spotted only three. So we take it that there were only three terrorists who had approached the periphery fencing."
He said the search and sensitisation operation in the area is on.
He said, "We have recovered four radio-sets and there are three GPS devices, dry fruits and medicines. This indicates that the terrorists had planned to enter the camp and engage the Army for a long time."
The attack came less than a month after terrorists stormed an army camp in Uri and less than two weeks after the cross-LoC surgical strike carried out by the Indian army against terror camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Meanwhile, four militants were killed while trying to infiltrate from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) as alert army troops foiled three bids by terrorists to enter into this side on Thursday morning.
The army, which has shored up its defences along the LoC, foiled three infiltration bids -- two in Naugam sector and one in Rampur -- of North Kashmir during the intervening night of October five and six.
In one of the encounters in the higher reaches of Naugam, 112 kms from Srinagar, the troops cornered a group of infiltrating militants and have killed four so far, a senior army official said.
The official said a combing operation was continuing amid apprehension about presence of more terrorists in the area. Technical surveillance was being maintained, besides using illuminators to prevent the militants, who could be present, from escaping under the cover of darkness.
The army repulsed two infiltration bids in Rampur and Naugam, raining bullets on the terrorists and forcing them to return to PoK.
The terrorists , who had managed to cross the fence, had to beat a retreat after army patrols challenged and opened heavy fire on them.
Pakistani army provided cover fire on both the occasions but the militants had to retreat, the official said.
Meanwhile, Defense spokesman, Colonel Rajesh Kalia told a local news agency that seven terrorists were killed at two different places today. "Three terrorists were killed in Langate encounter while four more were killed in Naugam sector," he said.
He said that the identification of the terrorists killed today is yet to be ascertained.
The infiltration bids come barely a day after National Security Advisor Ajit Doval briefed the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) that Pakistani army has mobilised about 100 terrorists across the LoC to push them into India to carry out attacks in Jammu and Kashmir.
At the meeting, which was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it was stated that the Pakistani army was planning attacks by terrorists on Indian defence personnel and security establishments besides select civilian targets in the wake of September 29 surgical strikes.
According to the assessment given by Doval, nearly 100 terrorists were readying to infiltrate India from unconventional launch pads.
Indian army had carried out surgical strikes on September 29, crossing over the LoC in Kupwara sector in the Kashmir Valley and Poonch in Jammu region and smashing launch pads meant for terrorists.
It was believed that nearly a dozen terrorists were killed in Kel, Lipa and Bhimber Gali and given a quiet burial.
Personnel from three divisions of the army were involved in the surgical strikes and, before the operation, the army teams ensured that they cut off the possibility of any reinforcements from Pakistani army, sources said. |
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