ARMY DENIES REMOVAL OF URI BRIGADE COMMANDER

The army on Saturday denied reports in a section of media that the Uri brigade commander had been removed barely a fortnight after a four-member suicide squad carried out a strike that left 19 soldiers dead.

Fourteen of the soldiers were burnt alive after incendiary ammunition used by militants set their tents ablaze.

Quoting sources, a Press Trust of India report from Srinagar said that Brigadier K Somashanker had been shifted out of the sensitive brigade.

The army later denied the report, saying that “it is clarified that no such orders have been issued by Army HQ”.

On September 21, defence minister Manohar Parrikar said that something obviously went wrong in Uri and that the government would take steps to prevent such attacks.

Parrikar said that he believed in the “principle of zero error” and India needed to ensure “wrongs” are not repeated.

The surgical strikes on the launch pads were targeted by the Indian Army on the intervening night of September 28 and 29 in a nearly four-hour operation.

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