An Army Major and three soldiers were martyred Tuesday in Gurez in north Kashmir while they were foiling an in... Read More

NEW DELHI: An Army Major and three soldiers were martyred Tuesday in Gurez in north Kashmir while they were foiling an infiltration bid, reported news agency PTI.

Two terrorists were also killed during their bid to infiltrate. Operations are underway and further reinforcements have been rushed to the encounter site.

The martyred personnel have been identified as Major K P Rane, hawaldars Jamie Singh and Vikramjeet and rifleman Mandeep.

The encounter between the Army's patrolling party and the infiltrating group took place at Govind Nallah in the Gurez sector of Bandipore district. Initial reports said a group of eight was trying to infiltrate into the country. Of them, four ran back to Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, officials said.

The bodies of the two slain militants could be seen from a distance while two more are believed to have been killed, officials said.

Late last week, defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman asserted that every attempt at infiltration along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir from across the border would be thwarted.

"I am here as raksha mantri (defence minister) to take care of our borders to stop infiltration. I will keep doing that irrespective of what is happening there (in Pakistan ). Our stand remains the same. Every attempt of infiltration will be thwarted," she said.

Sitharaman was responding to a query on infiltration bids after the recent elections in Pakistan in which Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf emerged as the single largest party with the cricketer-turned-politician set to take over as prime minister.

(With inputs from PTI)

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