Poonch Terror Attack: Army Truck Was Carrying Iftar Food; Villagers Refuse To Celebrate Eid-Ul-Fitr

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Poonch Terror Attack: Army Truck Was Carrying Iftar Food; Villagers Refuse To Celebrate Eid-Ul-Fitr


The Army truck that was ambushed within the terrorist assault in Poonch district on Thursday was taking fruits and different objects to the Sangiote village in Jammu and Kashmir for Iftar to be organised by the Indian Army’s Rashtriya Rifles unit. The occasion was scheduled to be held at 7pm however as a substitute of happiness, what greeted the villagers was the unhappy information of the demise of 5 troopers.  While 5 troopers have been killed, one was critically injured within the terror assault. The troopers have been from a Rashtriya Rifles unit deployed for counter-terror operations.

According to an Indian Express report, the truck was carrying supplies from the Rashtriya Rifles’s Balakote headquarters. It was going to the Sangiote village having a inhabitants of round 4,000. Mukhtiaz Khan, the village sarpanch, who was additionally to participate within the iftar, mentioned that the residents will not rejoice Eid and can solely supply namaz. The villagers have refused to rejoice Eid following the demise of the troopers. 

A dozen folks have been detained by the police for questioning in reference to the assault. The MI helicopter, drones and sniffer canines have been pressed into service in an enormous manhunt for the perpetrators. According to the PTI, Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police Dilbag Singh together with Additional Director General police Mukesh Singh was tenting in neighbouring Rajouri district to supervise the investigation. The two officers additionally visited the positioning. A National Investigation Agency (NIA) workforce headed by a Deputy Inspector General rank officer was additionally current because the company is prone to take over the case.

Initial reviews counsel the presence of round 5 terrorists and the military truck is believed to have been attacked from three completely different sides, reported PTI. After the ambush, the terrorists probably used grenades in addition to sticky bombs that set the car ablaze. The officers mentioned those that executed the assault are believed to have been current in Rajouri and Poonch for multiple yr and had ample information of the terrain which is sort of powerful. The space is a sizzling mattress of Jammu and Kashmir Gaznavi Force (JKGF) as its ‘commander’ Rafiq Ahmed alias Rafiq Nayi, who’s a resident of the realm, they added.





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