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Army chief to visit Nagrota today, combing ops resume at dawn
November 30, 2016
Army chief Dalbir Singh will be visiting Nagrota today even as extensive combing operations resumed on Wednesday morning at the army base in Nagrota, where a terror attack left seven
defence personnel dead.
Army spokesman, Lt. Col Manish Mehta said that search and combing operation began with first day light.
A
group of heavily-armed terrorists in police uniform stormed an army
unit in Nagrota in morning hours yesterday, triggering an intense
gunbattle that lasted for hours.
Seven army personnel, including
two officers, were killed in this attack before three terrorists were
killed in an armed stand-off which also involved a hostage-like
situation with 12 soldiers, two ladies and two children being held
captive.
Chief of Army Staff General Dalbir Singh briefed Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on the
attack carried out by police uniformed and heavily armed terrorists on
an army unit located three kilometers from the corps headquarters.
In
another incident, three terrorists were gunned down by BSF in Ramgarh
area of Samba sector near the International Border after an encounter
that lasted several hours and was followed by intense cross-border
firing by Pakistani troops
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