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Boat plot busted, many deaths
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Srinagar, Aug. 20: The army today said it had
killed a dozen militants who for the first time tried
to enter the Valley rowing an inflatable boat up a
river from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
At least 15 terrorists, believed to be from the
Lashkar-e-Toiba, rowed to the Indian bank of the
Kishanganga, which in some stretches doubles as
the Line of Control.
The last time terrorists entered India using the
water route was on November 26, 2008, when
10 Lashkar militants reached Mumbai and
launched an attack that lasted three days and
killed over 160.
Major General S.K. Chakravorty, the general
officer commanding, 28 Division, said the army
had information that some Lashkar militants
would try to cross the river in the Gurez sector,
so the force had laid ambushes. "We spotted
some people coming in a boat but we let them
row into the ambush. There was a gunfight in
which 12 militants were killed," said Chakravorty.
The operation that began at 1am today is still on
because at least three militants are believed to be
hiding. The army lost Lieutenant Navdeep Singh.
Two jawans are wounded.
"A 26-year-old officer, Navdeep was
commissioned in March this year into the army
Ordnance Corps and was serving in the 15th
Battalion of the Maratha Light Infantry," defence
spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel J.S. Brar said.
Maj. Gen. Chakravorty said the terrorists' handlers
ferried them using one boat. "They first dropped
three people. Then they went back and brought a
few more people."
Police sources said all the militants had crossed
the Kishanganga — it flows from Gurez, near the
Valley, into the Neelam Valley in PoK — when the
army began firing.
Brar said this was the first time that militants had
used the river route to cross the LoC.
He said six militants' bodies fell into the
Kishanganga.
.
.
Srinagar, Aug. 20: The army today said it had
killed a dozen militants who for the first time tried
to enter the Valley rowing an inflatable boat up a
river from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
At least 15 terrorists, believed to be from the
Lashkar-e-Toiba, rowed to the Indian bank of the
Kishanganga, which in some stretches doubles as
the Line of Control.
The last time terrorists entered India using the
water route was on November 26, 2008, when
10 Lashkar militants reached Mumbai and
launched an attack that lasted three days and
killed over 160.
Major General S.K. Chakravorty, the general
officer commanding, 28 Division, said the army
had information that some Lashkar militants
would try to cross the river in the Gurez sector,
so the force had laid ambushes. "We spotted
some people coming in a boat but we let them
row into the ambush. There was a gunfight in
which 12 militants were killed," said Chakravorty.
The operation that began at 1am today is still on
because at least three militants are believed to be
hiding. The army lost Lieutenant Navdeep Singh.
Two jawans are wounded.
"A 26-year-old officer, Navdeep was
commissioned in March this year into the army
Ordnance Corps and was serving in the 15th
Battalion of the Maratha Light Infantry," defence
spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel J.S. Brar said.
Maj. Gen. Chakravorty said the terrorists' handlers
ferried them using one boat. "They first dropped
three people. Then they went back and brought a
few more people."
Police sources said all the militants had crossed
the Kishanganga — it flows from Gurez, near the
Valley, into the Neelam Valley in PoK — when the
army began firing.
Brar said this was the first time that militants had
used the river route to cross the LoC.
He said six militants' bodies fell into the
Kishanganga.
