Amid tension in te valley, the Indian Army on Thursday foiled three infiltration bids assisted by Pakistani posts along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir.
Here are the LIVE updates since morning:
09:02
“At around 5 AM, militants opened firing on an army camp at Langate in Kupwara district, which was retaliated by the alert jawans,” an army official said.
- There was a stand-off firing for about 15-20 minutes. No casualties were reported in the exchange of fire.
12:15
- In another attack on the Army camp in Handwara, three militants were killed early Thursday when army foiled an attack on the battalion headquarters of 30 Rashtriya Rifles in North Kashmir’s Langate area.
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