army camp in sunjuwan

In a pre-dawn fidayeen attack on Saturday, a group of heavily armed Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists struck at an army camp in sunjuwan town on national highway 1A connecting Jammu to Srinagar, killing two soldiers and injuring nine others, including a Colonel and a girl child.

Sitharaman said the terrorists belonged to a Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) module and possibly had support from some locals as well. She said Pakistan was expanding the arc of terror beyond the Pir Panjal range and resorting to ceasefire violations to abet infiltration.

A group of JeM terrorists struck the residential quarter inside the Army camp at Sunjuwan on Saturday, killing seven people -- six soldiers, including two JCOs and father of one of the slain soldiers -- and injuring 10 others.

Mufti Waqas, the mastermind of the Sunjuwan terror attack, was killed in a shootout by the Army in south Kashmir. Waqas was behind the JeM attack on an Army camp in Jammu's Sunjuwan on February 10 this year, which led to the deaths of 10 people.

Mortal remains of havaldar Rakesh Chandra Raturi who was killed in the terror attack on Sunjuwan Army camp in Jammu and Kashmir, were brought to his Dehradun house on Tuesday evening and handed over to the bereaved wife and two children

The encounter between terrorists holed up in a building in Karan Nagar area of Srinagar and security forces resumed this morning after an overnight lull.

A group of Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) terrorists struck the residential quarter inside the Army camp at Sunjuwan here on Saturday, killing seven people -- six soldiers, including two junior commissioned officers (JCOs) and father of one of the slain soldiers -- and injuring 10 others.

According to Army, the FIR was lodged last evening and following which the state police carried out inspections in the area where the stone pelting happened.

Iqbal had insisted that his father come and live with him in his camp. It was his first posting to the home state and he wanted his father to live with him so that he could avoid the harsh winter of the South Kashmir area," said Tariq Ahmed, the soldier's cousin.

"Civil constructions are taking place near the boundary walls (of Army camps across the country) and it is getting difficult to remove these constructions because these are taking place with permission," Sitharam told reporters yesterday.

During the telephonic conversation, the home minister sought details from Director General of Police S P Vaid on the terrorist attack on the Army camp in Jammu, according to a tweet by the Home Minister's Office.

Thousands of people on Tuesday defied terror threats and turned up in the funeral of four Kashmiri soldiers, who were killed in the daring fidayeen attack by Jaish-e-Mohammad operatives at an army camp in sunjuwan in Jammu.

A senior police officer said two motorcycle-borne terrorists are believed to have approached the main gate of the camp at Domana on Jammu-Akhnoor road around 4:30 am and fired on the sentry post after security officials signalled them to stop, prompting retaliation.

The country's security establishment does not seem to have learnt many lessons from the spate of terror strikes on military bases and camps despite over 40 soldiers being killed and several others being injured in a dozen such incidents in Jammu & Kashmir since 2014.

Khwaja Shahid, a commander of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, has been found beheaded near the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. He was one of the masterminds behind the 2018 attack on an Indian Army camp in J&K's Sunjuwan. The circumstances surrounding his abduction and killing remain unclear, and no group has claimed responsibility. This follows a series of assassinations of wanted terrorists who had sought refuge in Pakistan and other countries.

The Sunjuwan Army camp in Jammu on Saturday was hit by a Jaish-e-Mohammad fidayeen attack even as intelligence inputs about an imminent terror strike by the group and a security alert were in place in view of Afzal Guru's death anniversary on February 9.