Three Armymen and five terrorists were killed in two separate attacks in Jammu on Tuesday. The first attack took place in Nagrota on the outskirts of Jammu city where terrorists, carrying guns and grenades stormed into an Army camp. Although all two terrorists were eliminated by the security forces, three of the Armymen were killed in the gun battle. The second incident took place in Samba sector near the Pakistan border where the forces gunned down three militants.
The attacks at the army base and a BSF camp were the latest in a series of militant violence that has escalated after the September 29 surgical strikes at terror launch pads by the Indian Army in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Police sources that an unknown number of militants barged into the military camp at Nagrota town, near the headquarters of the Indian Army’s 16 Corps — a military formation that acts as a nerve centre to fight militancy and defend the borders in Jammu region.
A police officer said the militants carrying automatic weapons and explosives entered the field regiment camp around 5.30 a.m. They started firing indiscriminately at the Officers’ Mess inside. “Three soldiers and two militants were believed to have been killed and three army men were injured. The exchange of fire is still on as other militants are still holed up inside,” the police officer said. Nagrota is located some 15 km from Jammu.