NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR,
An Army personnel was killed
and four others, including
a captain, were injured July 27 (PTI)
AN ARMY personnel was killed and
four others, including a captain, were
injured as the Indian Army on Saturday
foiled an attack by Pakistan’s Border
Action Team (BAT) in Kamakari sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara
district, military sources said.
A Pakistani intruder was also killed
in the exchange of fire, they added.
The BAT generally comprises special forces personnel of the Pakistan
Army and terrorists.
“Action by Border Action Team has
been foiled by alert Indian Army troops
on Saturday morning in Kamakari sector,” one of the sources said.
“One Pakistani intruder has been
killed,” he added. Two intruders managed to return to Pakistan-occupied
Kashmir (PoK) amid the intense gunfight that lasted for hours, the sources
said.
They said the group of three
intruders hurled a grenade and opened
fire on a forward post near the Kumkadi
post in Trehgam sector of the north
Kashmir district. Thetroops retaliated,triggering a gunfight between
the two sides, the sources
said,addingthatfivesoldiers
wereinjuredintheencounter
and one of them later succumbed to his injuries.
TheysaidtheinjuredArmy
personnel, including a captain,wereevacuatedtoabase
hospital.
Theconditionofoneofthe
injuredsoldierswasstatedto
be“critical”,thesourcessaid.