BSF jawan martyred in Pak sniping at LoC

TNN Bureau. Updated: 2/21/2018 10:21:35 AM Front Page

SRINAGAR: A BSF jawan was today martyred after he was shot by a Pakistani sniper from across the Line of Control in Tangdhar.
Constable S K Murmu (28) was deployed at a forward defended location (FDL) along the LoC in Karnah sector of the Tangdhar area, when a sniper shot hit him in the stomach around 4:30 pm on Tuesday.
"He was initially evacuated on foot from the forward area and then taken to Srinagar in an Army helicopter. However, Murmu succumbed to the fatal sniper shot. He was shot at by the Pakistani forces," a senior officer said.
He died at the Army hospital in Srinagar around 8:30 pm.
The jawan, who joined the Border Security Force (BSF) in 2013, hails from the Jamui district in Bihar.
Meanwhile, suspected terrorists today opened firing on security forces near an Air Force station in Pulwama district, defense sources said.
A group of terrorists today lobbed a grenade and opened fire at a water pump house of Indian Air Force (IAF) station in Pulwama district but there was no damage caused in the attack, an official said.
The firing was effectively retaliated by the alert sentries, forcing the terrorists to flee, he added.
"Two to three terrorists lobbed a grenade and opened firing on the water pump house located outside the Air Force Station at Malangpora in Awantipora area of Pulwama district," a defence spokesman said here.
There was no loss of life in the incident, the spokesman said adding security forces have cordoned off the area to track down the terrorists.
Besides, Security forces busted a terrorists hideout and recovered large cache of arms and ammunition, including explosive material, UBGLs and detonators in the frontier district of Kupwara in the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, official sources said.
They said on a specific information about the militant hideout in the woods at Lashtiyal village in the north Kashmir district of Kupwara, troops of Rashtriya Rifles (RR), Special Operation Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmir police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) launched a joint search operation in the area.
However, after hectic searches, security forces finally unearthed the hideout and recovered huge cache of arms and ammunition, they said, adding that the recovery included two kg of explosive material which could have been used for making Improvised Explosive Devices ((IEDs), seven detonators, three UBGLs and over 350 rounds of ammunition. However, no one was arrested, they added.


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