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Attack on Indian army camp in Baramulla kills one

Attack reported near 46 Rashtriya Rifles camp in occupied Kashmir

Reuters/news Desk October 02, 2016

Indian army soldiers take their positions near the site of a gun battle between Indian security forces and militants on the outskirts of Srinagar February 21, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS

At least six fighters attacked an Indian army camp in occupied Kashmir on Sunday night, killing one border guard and wounding another, two weeks after a similar attack killed 19 of its soldiers and ratcheted up tensions between India and Pakistan.

The attack on the camp of India's 46 Rastriya Rifles in Baramulla, which also houses a unit of the Border Security Force (BSF), started at around 10:30pm (1700 GMT) and repeated exchanges of fire ensued.

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"One BSF personnel was killed and one injured when militants tried to enter an army camp," said local Superintendent of Police Imtiyaz Hussein. Local reports that two attackers had been killed could not immediately be confirmed.

Baramulla is a district capital that lies on the road from Srinagar to the frontier settlement of Uri where the Sept 18 attack on the army base took place.

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India launched what it called "surgical strikes" after a September 18 attack on the Uri army base near the Line of Control with Pakistan, saying it inflicted significant casualties.

Pakistan flatly denied the Indian claims, saying two of its soldiers were killed from unprovoked cross-border firing at the Line of Control (LoC) by Indian security forces.

COMMENTS (3)

kitty | 7 years ago | Reply while we can be confident about our army responding appropriately, where we lack maturity is in our media reporting. A reporter who has very little knowledge about how the terrorists operate, how the army operates etc just shoots his or her mouth off for the general public spread across the length and breadth of the country. the excited and ill informed reporter reports it like a T20 match.For example - terrorists in kashmir valley threaten poor villagers and hide in villages often. some of those terrorists themselves may be misguided local youth. They often resort to the tactics of one or two of them taking the cover of night, forested areas or village huts and firing from a safe distance the village or a camp or towards the general area and running away after firing a few rounds. A novice reporter clueless about how terrorists operate and how the army responds, reports this as 'an attack on Army camp' instead of saying that a couple of terrorists fired a few rounds at night, the firing was in heard in so and so area etc.The connotation of an 'attack on a post' is totally different. The terrorists want the media to say that they have attacked a post. This is where our reporters look naive and ignorant. They must make themselves familiar with how the terrorists operate, what is a post, what is an administrative base, what is the connotation of someone firing an odd round from some place in the general vicinity and running away etc before they start reporting. Reporters also mix up the army and Central Armed Police Forces like The BSF,CRPF etc. The army, by way of its war ethos,HR, training, equipment, leadership, motivation etc are a totally different kettle of fish. While our Central police force forces like BSF etc do a greta job and must be appreciated, it is a sin to mix up or compare the army with police forces. its sad to see total unprofessional reporting from the site and an equally unprofessional news reader pretending to be an expert. let us see the indian media coming off age in reporting of terrorist incidents,war like situations and .. have some mediocre war reporters at least. i am sure that if you approach the defence ministry PRO or the army they will educate our reporters.

Jerry | 7 years ago | Reply This is happening as part of a script. Villages around punjab have been evacuated. So next sir ji Kal strike can be predicted.

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