Kupwara army camp attacked by fidayeen militants in Kashmir; three armymen, two terrorists killed
Terrorists on Thursday attacked an armed force camp in Kupwara area of Jammu and Kashmir.
An armed force commander and two officers were slaughtered in the assault. The armed force officer executed was recognized as Captain Ayush, official sources told PTI. It was before mistakenly written about TV that five armed force staff had been murdered in the assault.
As indicated by a report in the IANS, the ambush on the armed force camp, which is 120 kilometers from Srinagar, was a fidayeen or a suicide assault. “Fidayeen psychological militants assaulted the Panzgam armed force camp near the Line of Control (LoC) (at) around 4.30 am,” Defense Ministry Spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia told IANS.
Aggressors, associated to be with dread outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad, raged the force camp which is accountable for street opening obligations on the pivotal streets here. A chase is on to learn if any activist sneaked into the camp under the front of haziness.
Reports additionally said that Home Minister Rajnath Singh will seat a meeting on the circumstance in Jammu and Kashmir and top authorities from the home service will be available at the meeting.
PTI said that separatist pioneer Asiya Andrabi has additionally been captured in the state. This assault comes days after the focal government said it is augmenting all support for handling the fear threat and improvement to the Kashmir government, which ought to find a way to counter dread and separatist exercises.
“I would prefer not to make any remarks and entangle the circumstance. Jammu and Kashmir government needs to make every one of the moves to adequately counter all the psychological oppressor and separatist exercises and furthermore against national exercises enlivened by our neighbor,” Union priest M Venkaiah Naidu had told journalists in New Delhi.
The clergyman was reacting to an inquiry over Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday and whether the state government was doing what’s needed to counter fear based oppression.
Naidu said the Union government is extending all support to the state both for advancement and in addition for handling the psychological militant hazard.
Kashmir is in the hold of brutality since the April 9 bypoll for the Srinagar Lok Sabha voting public. The security powers are under extraordinary weight as they are confronted with day by day challenges and stone-pelting.