Rajouri terror attack: Fourth army soldier, a rifleman, succumbs to injuries

India

oi-Madhuri Adnal

Srinagar,
Aug
11:
One other
rifleman
Nishant
Malik,
who
was
injured
in
a
‘fidayeen’ assault
carried
out
by
two
terrorists
in
Jammu
and
Kashmir’s
Rajouri,
succumbed
to
accidents
late
on
Thursday
night,
taking
the
toll
in
the
assault
to
4.
The
braveheart
martyred
in
the
assault
belonged
to
Hansi
city
of
Hisar
district
in
Haryana.

Earlier,
three
troopers,
together with
a
Junior
Commissioned
Officer
(JCO),
have been
martyred
and
three
others,
together with
Malik,
have been
injured
when
two
suicide
bombers
tried
to
acquire
entry
into
an
Military
publish
in
Parghal
space
of
Darhal
in
Rajouri
district.
The
two
terrorists
have been
additionally
shot
useless
in
an
encounter
that
ensued.

The
military,
nevertheless,
foiled
a
suicide
bomb
assault
on
its
base
and
eradicated
each
the
terrorists.

Each
the
terrorists,
who
are
believed
to
be
from
the
Pakistan-based
Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM),
have been
closely
armed
with
lethal
‘metal
core’ bullets
and
have been
shot
down
after
an
over
four-hour
gun
battle
which
began
at
2
AM
and
ended
simply
earlier than
6.30
AM,
police
stated.
The
assault
got here
4
days
forward
of
India’s
seventy fifth
Independence
Day
subsequent
Monday.

Director
Common
of
Police
Dilbag
Singh
instructed
PTI
that
the
two
‘fidayeens’
(suicide
attackers),
believed
to
be
from
the
banned
JeM,
tried
to
sneak
into
the
camp
however
have been
neutralised.

Giving
particulars,
Defence
spokesman
at
Jammu
Lt
Col
Devender
Anand
stated
alert
sentries
of
the
Military
publish
at
Parghal
in
Rajouri
district
in
the
Jammu
area,
about
185
km
from
Jammu
metropolis,
detected
suspicious
individuals
approaching
their
publish
taking
benefit
of
the
inclement
climate
and
dense
foliage.

Suicide
assault
foiled
in
Rajouri;
2
terrorists
gunned
down,
3
troopers
martyred

He
stated
the
sentries
challenged
the
two
terrorists
who
lobbed
grenades
whereas
trying
to
acquire
entry
inside
the
publish.
Nonetheless,
alert
troops
cordoned
the
space
and
engaged
them
in
a
firefight,
he
added.

Anand
stated
in
the
ensuing
gunfight,
the
two
terrorists
have been
neutralised.

Six
troopers
of
the
Military
have been
injured
in
the
operation
and
of
them,
4
succumbed
to
accidents
whereas
repulsing
the
suicide
assault,
he
added.

The
slain
Military
personnel
have been
recognized
as
Subedar
Rajendra
Prasad
(of
Maligoven
village
in
Rajasthan’s
Jhunjhunu
district),
Rifleman
Lakshmanan
D
(of
T
Pudupatti
village
in
Madurai
district
of
Tamil
Nadu),
Rifleman
Manoj
Kumar
(of
Shahjahanpur
village
in
Haryana’s
Faridabad),
and
Rifleman
Nishant
Malik
(of
Adarsh
Nagar
village
in
Haryana’s
Hisar).

”The
Indian
Military
salutes
the
bravehearts
for
their
supreme
sacrifice
in
the
line
of
responsibility,
upholding
the
highest
custom
of
the
pressure.
The
nation
will
at all times
stay
indebted
to
them
for
their
supreme
sacrifice
and
devotion
to
responsibility,” he
added.

The
assault
marks
the
return
of
‘fidayeen’
to
the
Union
territory
of
J&
Ok
after
extra
than
three
years.
The
final
such
strike
took
place
on
February
14,
2019
at
Lethpora
in
Pulwama
district
of
south
Kashmir,
in
which
40
CRPF
personnel
have been
killed.

There
was
an
intelligence
enter
about
the
presence
of
terrorists
from
the
JeM
in
the
area
and
police
and
different
safety
companies
have been
carrying
out
operations
in
varied
components
of
the
district,
police
stated.

Safety
forces
and
the
police
had
been
put
on
alert
following
intelligence
inputs
on
suspected
motion
of
terrorists
in
the
Rajouri
belt,
prompting
them
to
launch
a
combing
operation
in
Darhal
and
Nowshera
belt
on
Wednesday.

On
Might
8,
a
terrorist
was
killed
as
the
Military
foiled
an
infiltration
bid
alongside
the
LoC
in
Rajouri
district.
There
have been
a number of
blasts
in
Rajouri
district
in
April
and
Might.

Police
had
busted
two
modules
of
the
LeT
instrumental
in
carrying
out
terror
acts
and
ferrying
drone-dropped
weapons
from
Pakistan
to
the
Kashmir
valley.
They
arrested
5
members
of
two
terror
modules.