Four soldiers, 1 civilian killed in Sunjawan army camp attack
Srinagar, Feb 11 (IBNS): Five soldiers and a civilian have been killed during 30-hour-long gunbattle which started on Saturday morning after heavily armed terrorists had stormed the Sunjawan army camp in Jammu city .
Defence Spokesman told IBNS in Jammu that four terrorists were also killed who were hold up near the residential quarters inside the camp.
“Four dead bodies of terrorists wearing army combat dress and was heavily armed. AK-56 rifles, under barrel grenade launchers, ammunition and grenades were recovered,” Defence spokesman said on Sunday.
The operation now mainly focuses on evacuation of people from family quarters, spokesman said.
The five martyred Army personnel include Sub. Madan Lal Choudhary (1st Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry, JAK LI), Sub. Mohd Ashraf Mir (1st JAK LI), Hav. Habib-Ullah Qurashi (1st JAK LI), NK Manzoor Ahmed (1st JAK LI) and L/NK Mohd Iqbal (1st JAK LI).
The civilian, who was killed, has been identified as the father of L/NK Mohd Iqbal.
Earlier in a day Army chief Bipin Rawat arrived in Jammu to review the operation that started early on Saturday after heavily armed terrorist in army fatigues stormed the camp at around 4.45am.
Meanwhile, National Investigation Agency team members arrived in Jammu and straightway went to Sunjwan military station , sources said NIA would be probing as to how the terrorists sneaked into the family quarters of the military station .
A high alert had been sounded in the Valley and for Jammu as well to watch out for possible terrorist attacks on the army camps and police stations.
Sunjuwan is third biggest army facility in Jammu and Kashmir after Northern Command’s headquarters in Udhampur and Badami Bagh cantonment in Srinagar.
Terrorists had targeted the Sunjuwan camp 14 years ago in which two Terrorists and 12 soldiers were dead on June 28, 2003.
(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
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