Team News Riveting
Srinagar, May 5
Pakistani terror group Jaish-e-Muhammad’s front PAFF had claimed the responsibility for the Rajouri attack in which five soldiers including an officer of Indian Army were martyred on Friday.
In a statement released, the terror outfit claimed responsibility for the killing of 5 Indian Army soldiers during a blast at an encounter between terrorists and security forces at Rajouri of Jammu and Kashmir.
Terror attack on a day when Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto is in India for SCO Summit.
According to officials, on specific information about the presence of terrorists in the Kandi Forest in the Rajouri Sector, a joint operation was launched on May 3, 2023. “At about 7:30 am on May 5, 2023, a search team established contact with a group of terrorists well entrenched in a cave,” they said, adding that the area is thickly vegetated with rocky and steep cliffs.
“The terrorists triggered an explosive device in retaliation. The Army team has suffered two fatal casualties with injuries to four more soldiers including an officer,” a statement by Northern Command in the afternoon said. Additional teams from the vicinity have been directed to the site of the encounter. The injured personnel have been evacuated to Command Hospital, Udhampur, it further stated.
In a tweet later in the evening, White Knight Corps said, “In the ongoing operation three soldiers who were injured earlier have unfortunately succumbed to their injuries. Operations are still in progress.”
As per initial reports, a group of terrorists are trapped in the area. There is a likelihood of casualties in a terrorist group.
Indian Army is conducting relentless intelligence-based operations to flush out a group of terrorists involved in an ambush on an army truck in the Tota Gali area of Bhata Dhurian in the Jammu region, officials stated.
