2 soldiers, two porters killed in terrorists attack in Baramulla
Jammu, Oct 24: Two soldiers and two army porters were killed when terrorists attacked an army patrol vehicle near Line of Control (LoC) in Gulmarg area of Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir.
An army patrol vehicle came under fire near the Nagin post area of Butapathri in Gulmarg of Baramulla district near the Line of Control (LoC) in which two army soldiers and two civilians working with the army as porters were killed, police said.
Meanwhile, two army jawans are reported to be injured and have been shifted to hospital for treatment, they said.
The two civilian porters killed in the attack have been identified as Mushtaq Ahmed Choudhary and Zahoor Ahmad, both residents of Boniyar in district Baramulla, police said.
“A brief firefight took place between the Indian Army and terrorists in the general area of Baramulla’s Butapathri,” army sources said.
The attack comes hours after a labourer from Uttar Pradesh was shot at and injured in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district. The injured man was later identified as Pritam Singh.
The attack earlier today was the second in Ganderbal in the past 72 hours. Officials said that a search operation has been launched to find the terrorists.
In a deadly attack, six labourers and a doctor were killed in a terror attack on a construction site in Ganderbal district on October 20. The victims included a Kashmiri doctor and six people employed with a construction company, who had returned to their camp in the evening. Among the six were three labourers, a manager, a mechanical engineer and a designer.
Chief minister Omar Abdullah, who took office on October 16, described the attacks as “dastardly”.
According to police, at least two suspected gunmen opened indiscriminate fire on the camp that housed the workers of APCO at Gagangeer in Gund area of Ganderbal district.