By India Today News Desk: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is scheduled to visit Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri today on Saturday to review the ongoing operations after five Army jawans lost their lives yesterday.
The Defence Minister will be accompanied by Army Chief General Manoj Pande.
Northern Army Commander Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi is currently present at Ground Zero as security forces exchange gunfire with militants in Rajouri’s Kandi. He was briefed on all aspects of the operation by ground commanders.
Five Army jawans were killed in an explosion during an encounter with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Friday. A joint operation is underway to flush out the terrorists suspected to be involved in the Poonch terror attack.
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5 jawans killed in J&K’s Poonch on April 20
Five Army soldiers were killed in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on April 20. Defence officials said that terrorists fired at the Army vehicle while it was moving from Bhimber Gali to Sangiot in Poonch district.
“Today, at approximately 1500 hours, one Army vehicle, moving between Bhimber Gali and Poonch in the Rajauri sector was fired on by unidentified terrorists, taking advantage of heavy rains and low visibility in the area. The vehicle caught fire, due to likely use of grenades by terrorists,” HQ Northern Command said in a statement last month.
The Army jawans who lost their lives in the incident were from the Rashtriya Rifles Unit and were deployed for Counter Terrorist operations in the area.
Sticky bombs and steel bullets were used in a terror attack last month in which five Army jawans were killed in Poonch.
