ARMY FOILS PAK B.A.T. ATTACK IN KERAN SECTOR
Army says a team of eight members tried to sneak in to Indian side
The Army on Tuesday said that it repulsed Pakistan Border Action Team (BAT’s) attack at one of its forward posts in Keran sector of the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara sector.
“Our alert jawans in a swift action repulsed the attack and forced the heavily armed BAT group to retreat and fled back to PoK even though it was provided firing cover from across the LoC. No casualties are reported,” said a defence spokesman here.
The Army officials while giving the details of the Keran infiltration bid said that seven to eight armed men sneaked into the Indian side of the de facto border at around 1 pm and then targeted an Indian post with automatic weapons. “They were the members of Pakistan’s Border Action Team (BAT) but were forced to retreat,” they said.
The officials said that Pakistan’s Border Action teams usually comprise members of the neighbouring country’s Special Forces and militants.
On June 22, the Indian troops had repulsed a similar attack by the members of Pakistan’s BAT who had allegedly intruded 600 m deep inside the Indian territory after breaching the LoC in Poonch district. One of the intruders was killed in the swift Indian action but a second intruder had managed to escape.
Earlier on May 26, the Army had claimed killing two members of Pakistan's BAT in Uri sector of the LoC. A day later, six militants were gunned down by the Indian troops in the same sector.