NIA, NSG Teams To Visit site of Terror Attack
BUNTY MAHAJAN
POONCH, APRIL 21:
Three to four terrorists had reportedly fired steel core bullets, apart from hurling grenade on the Army vehicle killing five soldiers and injuring another on the Bhimber Gali – Surankote road in poonch district on Thursday afternoon.
The empties of the 7.62 mm steel core bullets were recovered by experts of bomb disposal squad and FSL who visited the spot near Tota Gali on Friday morning.
Officials from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) are likely to visit there later during the day, while Additional Director General of Pooice, Jammu, Mukesh Singh along with senior police officers visited the site of Thursday terror attack in the afternoon.
A massive search operation was launched on Friday morning in the forests of Jammu and Kashmir’s Bata-Doriya area to track the terrorists who attacked an Army vehicle in Poonch, killing five jawans.
The deceased soldiers identified as havildar Mandeep Singh, lance naik Debashish Baswal, lance naik Kulwant Singh, sepoy Harkrishan Singh and Sepoy Sewak Singh were attached with the army’s Rashtriya Rifles unit and were deployed for counterterrorist operations in the area.
Meanwhile, sources said the terrorists had laid an ambush near Tota Gali on the Bhimber Gali-Poonch road for the security forces convoy. And as the Army, which was on way from Basooni to Sangiote reached near Tota Gali, they attacked it from all sides.
