STATE TIMES NEWS
SRINAGAR: Terrorists on Sunday night launched a ‘Fidayeen’ (suicide) attack on an army camp in Baramulla town of Jammu and Kashmir, three days after Indian military’s surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the LoC, officials said.
Reports said, there are both 46 RR Army camp and a BSF unit. Terrorists lobbed grenades and opened fire on sentry post of BSF unit. Later they opened fire on Army camp.
Two BSF men were injured when the last reports last received.
Due to darkness, their number was not clear while they were not able breach camp when the reports last received.
The camp is located on the outskirts of Baramulla city, 54 kms from here.
Personnel of the border guarding force BSF, which is under the operational command of the Army in this area, jointly stay in the camp with the soldiers, they said.
The attack came barely a fortnight after the terror assault on the army’s brigade headquarters at Uri which left 19 soldiers dead. The Indian army carried out retaliatory surgical strikes on terrorist launch pads early Thursday in PoK and there were apprehensions about possible suicide attacks on defence installations ever since.
Fresh firing in Pallanwala
JAMMU: In another ceasefire violation, Pakistani troops launched firing and shelling on forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Pallanwala sector of Jammu district on Sunday evening.
“Firing and shelling from across LoC has started at 7.15 PM in forward areas in Pallanwala belt along the LoC. It is intermittently going on,” a Police officer said.
He said it was not yet known if there was any causality.
Meanwhile, PRO (Defence) said he had no idea about it.
This is the sixth ceasefire violation since Indian army carried out surgical strikes the terrorists launch pad in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir.
On Saturday, Pakistani troops shelled Indian posts and civilian areas with mortar bombs, rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) and heavy machine guns (HMG) amid small arms firing along LoC in positions along LoC in Pallanwala and Chhamb areas.
Meanwhile, two persons, one from Astilla in Pakistan and another from PoK, were arrested by the security forces. During routine patrolling on the border area, security forces arrested a 32-year-old man moving under suspicious circumstances near the International border in Agrechak belt of RS Pura sector on Sunday evening, official sources said.
He was identified as Abu Bakar, son of Amin Hamza and resident of Astilla in Pakistan, they said, adding after brief questioning, he was handed over to police.
Army along with police have apprehended a 41-year-old PoK resident in Saujian Sector of Poonch last evening, an Army officer said.
Three people were held in last one week.
On September 24, a Pakistani national and an alleged activist of Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit, was arrested by BSF from near International Border in Jammu.
