An Indian Army vehicle was attacked on Monday morning in Akhnoor, Jammu and Kashmir. Vigilant soldiers foiled the attack. Army officials said, “A military vehicle was fired upon in Battal area of Akhnoor. There is no report of any casualty. A search operation has been launched.”
“Alert troops foiled a possible terrorist attack,” he said. Last week, two soldiers and two civilians were killed in an ambush by terrorists on army vehicles in Baramulla district.
According to officials, a convoy carrying personnel of a Rashtriya Rifles unit and civilian porters was moving towards Naagin outpost in the Afrawat range when terrorists fired at two army trucks at Botapathri, about 6 km from tourist hub Gulmarg. A few days earlier, a local doctor and six non-local laborers were shot dead by terrorists at a tunnel construction site in Ganderbal’s Gagangir area.
On Saturday, the Romeo Force of the Indian Army, in a joint operation with the Special Operation Group (SOG) police, busted a terrorist hideout in Balnoi sector of Poonch. More than a dozen people have lost their lives in terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir in the last two weeks, disrupting peace in the Union Territory even weeks after assembly elections.
‘Blood will be avenged’
Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday said that every drop of innocent blood shed in the valley will be avenged and all capabilities will be used to dismantle the terror ecosystem, ANI reported.
