BAT team carried daggers, headband cam to record attack
JAMMU: The Pakistani Border Action Team (BAT), which attacked an Indian Army patrol after crossing the LoC, was made up of special forces’ men and terrorists who were armed with ‘special daggers’ and headband cameras to record the strike in Poonch district.
The attack on June 22 left two Indian soldiers dead while one BAT member was killed in retaliatory action by Indian troops.
Army troops, during search and sanitation operations, recovered the body of a member of the BAT team along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on June 22.
“The body of the intruder killed in the BAT attempt has been retrieved and handed over to the local police,” a senior army officer said on Friday.
“Arms, ammunition and other war-like stores, including a special dagger and a headband with a camera, knife, one AK rifle, three magazines, two grenades besides dresses and bags was recovered which reflects the barbaric mindset of the Pakistani Army,” he said.
Giving details, the officer said a special class of dagger and a knife was meant to engineer quick mutilation and beheading of jawans killed in the exchanges and it was foiled by the quick action by Indian soldiers.
The Border Action Team member was wearing headband with camera to record the action and possible mutilation of jawans, which was prevented by other troops who shot dead one of them and injured another, he said.
The officer said it was a matter of investigation if the camera was connected live with Pakistani army establishments across the border.