The Army claims to have foiled another infiltration bid on the Line of Control and killed four infiltrators. Three Army jawans were also killed in the encounter that started on Saturday.
This is the second infiltration bid that the Army has foiled in the past four days on the LoC. On Wednesday, a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) was killed and two jawans were injured when the Army foiled a similar infiltration attempt in the same region close to the LoC.
Defence spokesman Lt Col J S Brar said four infiltrators were killed on the Line of Control in Ferkiyan Gali in north Kashmir’s Kupwara sector. “The infiltrators were killed when they were trying to sneak into the Valley from the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir,” he said, adding that the bodies of the slain infiltrators could not be retrieved as they were lying on the other side of the LoC.
Calling it “a big infiltration attempt”, Lt Col Brar said the Army jawans foiled it and many infiltrators managed to escape into PoK. “The operation is still going on and Army patrols are searching the area,” he added.
Compared to previous years, so far less number of encounters have happened near the LoC in Kupwara and Baramulla districts. However, the latest infiltration attempts within the past four days have alerted the security and intelligence agencies, and the Army has increased its human intelligence network in the villages falling close to the LoC.
Besides, barbed wire fencing and surveillance grid, three-tier security is in place along the LoC. The Army has put up a 434-km-long barbed wire fencing along the LoC, and also installed Israel-made sophisticated equipment, surveillance grid, in sensitive areas of north Kashmir
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