Srinagar: Army on Tuesday said that body of one more soldier was recovered from the encounter site inside the Sunjuwan Military camp in Jammu, taking the death toll in the ‘fidayeen’ attack to 10 with six of them Army personnel while others include a civilian and three militants.
“The body of the Army jawan was recovered during the clearance operation at the camp last night,” Army’s Public Relation Officer Lt Col Devender Anand said.
Earlier army said two Junior Commissioned officers were among soldiers killed along with a civilian in attack which army said was carried by a group of fidayeens on its Sunjuwan Brigade on wee hours of Saturday. While all slain soldiers and civilian belong to Jammu and Kashmir, army has also claimed to have killed three fidayeens.
The slain soldiers were identified as Subedar (JCO) (Hony Lt) Madan Lal Choudhary (50)of Hiranagar, District Kathua, Subeddar Mohd Ashraf of Maidanpora Kupwara, Havaldar Habibullah Qureshi of Batpora Kupwara, Lance Naik Mohammad Iqbal(32), his father Ghuma Mohidin Sheikh (civilian) of Nigeenpora Pinglish Tral in Pulwama District and Manjoor Ahmed Deva (32).
Defence Ministry spokesman Colonel Devendra Anand said three militants had been killed in the encounter.
Para-commandos from the Army’s Udhampur-headquartered Northern Command were flown to tackle the militants. The Air Force provided aerial surveillance.
A Major has been airlifted to an Udhampur hospital where his condition was stated to be critical, Army officials said.
Army helicopters and drones were pressed into service to ascertain the exact location of the militants.
