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Hours before an army truck was ambushed by unidentified terrorists in Jammus Poonch district on Thursday, resulting in the death of five soldiers, the army had cancelled the movement of a convoy on the same route, a senior government official said...
Around 3 p.m., the solitary vehicle, travelling from Basooni in Balakote sector towards Sangiote in Poonchs Surankote as part of a counter-insurgency patrol, was ambushed...
There was no clarity on the whereabouts of the weapons being carried by the soldiers in the truck.The official added that the location where the attack took place is about six to seven kilometres from the Line of Control (LoC) and is dominated by the armys Rashtriya Rifles (RR)...
After the incident, S.L. Thaosen, the Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) who is also holding the additional charge of the Border Security Force (BSF), reviewedthe prevailing security scenario..
Over the past three years, there have been continued attempts to revive militancy in the Jammu region.As reported by The Hindu on January 29, security agencies have foiled 92% of terror attacks uncovered in the Jammu division in this period..
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