Army launches search op in Uri after large infiltration bid

Uri, September 21: Indian Army has launched a massive hunt operation after a infiltration bid took place on the intervening night of Sunday-Monday in Uri along the LoC. The massive search operation was launched on the intervening night of September 18 and 19.

 

According to the reports, six-armed terrorists reportedly sneaked into the Kashmir valley from the Uri. The operation is going on and a high alert has been sounded for the army camps located in the area. sector. The Army has brought in additional reinforcements and a large area has been cordoned off. This is believed to be the biggest infiltration attempt by terrorists from across the LoC in recent years.

 

 

 

Officials said an infiltration attempt was detected late Saturday evening, coinciding with the fifth anniversary of the Uri attack in which 19 soldiers were killed after two suicide attackers stormed a military installation on September 18, 2016. Following that Army has suspended mobile internet and phone services in the Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir since Monday morning.

 

 

Last week, the army had foiled an infiltration bid in the Gurez sector of Bandipora district in Jammu and Kashmir and recovered a cache of arms and ammunition.

 

This is the second major infiltration bid from the Uri sector in the Valley this year A total of 86 terrorists have been killed in the Valley this year. In April this year, the security forces had neutralized 12 terrorists within a short span of 72 hours at Bijbehara.

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