Jammu attack toll rises to 6, 2 more terrorists also killed
DAY 2 Sanitation and search operations at the Sunjuwan camp still underway
Security forces have neutralised three terrorists holed up in the Sunjuwan Army camp here, while six people, including five army personnel, have been killed in the attack by suspected JeM militants, army officials said on Sunday.
A defence spokesperson in a statement said three terrorists had so far been killed in the ongoing operation.
A group of heavily armed men struck the sprawling camp of the 36 brigade of the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry before dawn on Saturday. Five army men, including two junior commissioned officers (JCOs), were killed in the attack.
AK-56 rifles, Under Barrel Grenade Launcher, ammunitions and grenades were seized from the JeM men, the spokesman said.
A JCO and a jawan were killed on Saturday.
The spokesperson said during sanitation of residential quarters by the army commandos, bodies of another JCO, two jawans and an elderly man, the father of a soldier, were recovered.
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All six of them had been killed by the terrorists in the initial stage of the attack on Saturday.
Ten people, including six women and children, were injured in the attack, the spokesperson said.
The sanitation and search operations were underway.
“The operation is on and the evacuation (of people from the family quarters) is in progress,” Jammu-based Army PRO Lt Col Devender Anand told PTI.
He said a number of families were still in the camp and the army’s aim was to ensure their safety.
“There has been no firing since last night,” the officer said.
The latest attack on the camp took place nearly 15 months after the Jammu region was hit by a similar attack.
On November 29, 2016, terrorists had stormed the Army’s Nagrota camp on the outskirts of the city, killing seven Army personnel, including two officers. Three terrorists were gunned down in the operation.
The terrorists had struck
A pregnant woman, who was injured in an attack by armed terrorists on the family quarters at the Sunjuwan military camp here, delivered a baby girl in the hospital on Sunday.
Rifleman Nazir Ahmed and his wife were injured in the firing by the terrorists and were shifted to the Military Hospital at Satwari here, an army official said. “The army doctors worked all night to save the life of the severely injured pregnant woman with gunshots wounds and helped her deliver a baby girl, following a caesarean section operation,” Jammu-based army PRO Lt Col Devender Anand said. “The mother and the baby are stable.”
Lt Col Anand said the condition of a boy, admitted with a gunshot wound in his head, however, remained critical.
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