Uri/New Delhi, Sep 18, 2016: 17 soldiers dead in Kashmir assault. 4 heavily-armed terrorists mentioned to be “foreigners” sneaked into a military camp close to the LoC with Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday within the worst assault on a army base within the state in a decade that left 17 troopers dead and lots of injured, officers mentioned.
17 soldiers dead in Kashmir assault.
Over two dozen soldiers had been injured within the audacious pre-dawn assault, which Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley blamed on Pakistan and known as for its isolation. A few of wounded soldiers have been in vital situation in Srinagar, about 70 km away.
All of the 4 Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) fidayeen or suicide attackers, who stealthily entered the camp close to Uri city at 5.30 a.m. after reducing the barbed wires, have been killed in preventing that raged for some two-and-a-half hours, military officers stated as 17 soldiers dead in Kashmir assault.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi strongly condemned the “cowardly terror assault” and assured “that these behind this despicable assault is not going to go unpunished”.
Modi kept away from saying who was accountable for the bloodbath however Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley didn’t mince phrases when 17 soldiers dead in Kashmir assault.
“I’m deeply disenchanted with Pakistan’s continued and direct assist to terrorism. Pakistan is a terrorist state and it needs to be recognized and remoted as such,” Rajnath Singh tweeted.
Jaitley added: “It’s clear our neighbour is utilizing terror to create menace in our nation. Our diplomacy would work within the path of isolating Pakistan internationally” as 17 soldiers dead in Kashmir assault.
Islamabad rejected the allegations.
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