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Militant killed, infiltration bid foiled in J&K

One militant was killed on Saturday on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district where the army foiled an infiltration bid.


Defence sources said the militant was killed in Gurez sector when the army challenged a group of three to four militants who were trying to sneak into the Indian side on the LoC.

"One terrorist has been killed and the operation against other terrorists is still going on. The infiltration bid has been foiled," an official said.

The army killed five militants on Friday in Uri sector of the LoC in Baramulla district, foiling a major infiltration bid.
With the latest operation, the number of militants killed in encounters along the LoC in north Kashmir in the past four days has gone up to 14.


An Army jawan also lost his life in one of the encounters. A defence spokesman on Thursday said multiple attempts made by Pakistan army to push armed infiltrators across the LoC were foiled by the troops at Machhil and Naugam sectors in Kupwara district, Gurez in Bandipora district and Uri in Baramulla, resulting in the killing of seven militants.


All the four infiltration bids were aided by the Pakistani forces who provided active support, including cover fire using heavy calibre artillery, the Army's Northern Command had said in a statement.


With the killing of six militants in Uri sector on Friday and one in Gurez on Saturday, the Army has foiled eight infiltration attempts in less than a fortnight in north Kashmir.


Three of the attempts were scuttled in Uri sector alone. On May 26, the Army killed two Pakistani Border Action Team (BAT) members who tried to infiltrate into Uri sector in Baramulla district to carry out an attack on the soldiers.


Six more militants were killed in the same sector on May 27 when they attempted to sneak into the valley from across the border. In 2017, Army foiled 24 infiltration attempts killing 41 armed intruders along the LoC.

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