An Army trooper was killed in militant
firing on a security picket
in Kupwara District on June
19, reports Daily Excelsior.
Militants opened fire on Rani
Post in Handwara, in the wee
hours, wounding Lance Naik Rajesh
Kumar. The injured trooped later
succumbed to the injuries. No
militant outfit has so far claimed
responsibility for the incident.
Elsewhere in the District, two suspected
militant guides were found dead
near the Line of Control (LoC).
Their bodies were recovered
by security Forces (SFs) from
Dumrigali-Fatehgali in Keran
sector, according to
IBN
Live
. An identity card recovered from one of the deceased stated
his name as Mohammad Zumzum,
a resident of
Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK),
officials said. A wireless set,
a mobile phone with a Pakistani
SIM
card, seven ice axes, as many hand gloves, two snow shoes,
three rucksacks, two foam mattresses
and a snow goggle were recovered
from the deceased, the officials
said. The recoveries suggested
that the deceased were working
as guides for the militants
to infiltrate from across the
border and had apparently died
of an avalanche while crossing
the Valley.
Meanwhile, a Ministry of Home Affairs
(MHA) report has said that SFs
have foiled as many as four
major infiltration attempts
this summer from Pakistan into
Jammu and Kashmir along the
LoC, India Today reported
on June 18. While fewer militants
have managed to infiltrate into
the state over the past three
years because of stepped-up
vigilance, as many as 14 attempts
at staging terror attacks in
the Valley have been defused
till March this year [2012],
the report reveals. These attacks
had been planned by Pakistan-based
terror groups. It has also been
reported that the 14 foiled
terror plots were meant to target
the army and paramilitary forces
such as the Central Reserve
Police Force deployed in the
Valley.
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