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Army chief to pay tribute to slain soldiers in J&K today

| | Dec 06, 2014, at 05:00 pm
Srinagar, Dec 6 (IBNS): Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag will visit Srinagar on Saturday to pay tribute to the martyrs who were killed in a series of terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, media reports said.

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit on Dec 8, Jammu and Kashmir witnessed four coordinated terror strikes in less than 12 hours, including the one where militants stormed into an Army camp in Uri town of the state, which killed 20 people on Friday.

Overall, eight Indian Army soldiers, six militants and three cops died in the Uri incident.

While an another encounter, which took place in Srinagar, ended where two foreign militants were killed and in another incident one civilian was killed and several others were injured as unknown masked persons hurled grenade in Tral town of Pulwama district of south Kashmir.

Armed militants entered into 31 Field Regiment Ordinance Camp in Uri sector at around 3:30 in the morning and opened fire and lobbed grenades everywhere that created panic inside the camp. Three policemen, including a sub-inspector, were killed in the attack.

Many army soldiers received burn injuries after they got trapped in a barrack that caught fire due to the militant attack. Sources said the militants were heavily armed and well equipped who opened a heavy dimension of fire with automatic weapons.

In Soura in the outskirts of the city, top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Qari Israr was killed by security personnel when he was trying to enter the city. Police termed the killing of two militants including a foreign national as a big success and said that slain militant was involved in many cases related to killing and attacks on security forces.

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