JAMMU: Six of the 18 Armymen slain in an ambush by insurgents in Manipur were from the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir.
“Six of the martyrs of the Manipur ambush of Dogra battalion are from Jammu region,” defence spokesman Lt Col Manish Mehta said here Friday.
These included JCO Naib Subedar Ram Singh of Samba district, Havalder Sunil Kumar Sharma of Rajouri district, Havalder Satpal Bhasin, Lance Naik Kuldeep Raj, Havaldar Randeep Singh, Sepoy Vijay Kumar– all from Jammu district.
At least seven soldiers killed in the ambush belonged to Himachal Pradesh.
JK government and all the political parties have condoled the death of the jawans in the attack.
In the worst such attack in two decades, insurgents ambushed a military convoy in Manipur’s Chandel district killing at least 18 army personnel and injuring 11 others.
Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh has conveyed condolence to the families of the martyr soldiers and said the whole nation was with them to share their grief.
Congress also expressed condolence to the families of the martyr soldiers. “We condemn the cowardly attack on the Armymen. We express condolence to the families of the martyr soldiers who laid down their life while fighting militants in Manipur,” senior vice president of J&K Congress, Sham Lal Sharma said today.