Atleast fourteen folks have been detained for questioning within the terrorist assault which killed 5 Army personnel in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch. Drones and sniffer dogs are also being used within the cordon-and-search operation which has entered second day on Saturday. The total space has been cordoned off. Five Army personnel had been killed and one other was critically injured after their car caught fireplace following the fear assault in Poonch on Thursday.
Top safety officers, together with Border Security Force (BSF) Director General S L Thaosen and Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Mukesh Singh, apart from these from the National Security Guard (NSG), visited the spot throughout a safety overview of the border belt.
What we thus far:
- A preliminary investigation has revealed that the Army truck was carrying fruits and different objects to a ahead village for Iftar that was imagined to be hosted by the Army’s Rashtriya Rifles unit
- The steel-core bullets used by the terrorists have also been discovered.
- The assault was carried out by a bunch of three to 4 terrorists
- The terrorists most likely used a sticky bomb or a grenade resulting from which the Army truck caught fireplace.
- The attackers presumably spent greater than a yr in Rajouri and Poonch and had ample data of the terrain.
- The Army mentioned the truck caught fireplace due to the doubtless use of grenades. The Army discovered bullet marks on the car and the physique of a jawan.
