Pak Bat carried daggers, cameras

Jammu, June 24: 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 for recording 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. “Arms, ammunition and other war-like stores, including a special dagger and a headband with a camera, knife, one AK rifle, 3 magazines, 2 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 firing exchanges and it has been foiled by the quick action by Indian soldiers.

The Bat member was wearing headband with camera on his head 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.

He said it is a matter of probe whether the camera was live connected with Pakistani Army across the border.