SRINAGAR: The late night attack on an army camp in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district has ended while a Border Security Force (BSF) trooper was martyred and another jawan received bullet injuries.
The militants who mounted the attack on the camp have escaped, said a senior police officer.
SSP Baramulla Imtiyaz Hussain said that army and BSF foiled the attempts of the militants to storm the 46 RR camp in Janbazpora.
In the shootout that lasted for over an hour, a BSF man was killed and another injured, he said.
Hussain said that the militants took cover of darkness to escape from the site of the attack.
Meanwhile, according to sources, combing operations were launched to nab the terrorists who attempted to sneak into the camp.
The martyred jawan has been identified as Constable Nitin while the injured personnel is Constable Pulwinder. Both belong to the 40th battalion of the BSF, officials said.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval discussed the incident and necessary instructions have been given to the forces. Singh also spoke to Director General of BSF K K Sharma and asked him to provide all possible treatment to the injured jawan. This was the first major attack on security forces by terrorists after the Indian Army launched surgical strikes on terror launch pads in Pakistan occupied Kashmir last week.
The attack comes despite intelligence inputs about possible terrorist attacks on security installations in Jammu and Kashmir following the operations in PoK on September 29.