Jammu:
An Military soldier has been killed in motion after safety forces and terrorists exchanged fireplace in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district on Thursday, officers stated.
The firing passed off within the Dudu-Basantgarh space throughout a cordon and search operation launched based mostly on details about the presence of terrorists, they stated.
“Primarily based on particular intelligence, a joint operation with Jammu and Kashmir Police was launched at present in Basantgarh, Udhampur. Contact was established and a fierce firefight ensued. One in every of our bravehearts sustained grievous accidents within the preliminary change and later succumbed regardless of greatest medical efforts,” the Military’s Jammu-based White Knight Corps posted on X.
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Primarily based on particular intelligence, a joint operation with @JmuKmrPolice was launched at present in #Basantgarh, #Udhampur.
Contact was established and a fierce firefight ensued.One in every of our #Bravehearts sustained grievous accidents within the preliminary change and later succumbed… pic.twitter.com/eojsj5PPuU
— White Knight Corps (@Whiteknight_IA) April 24, 2025
Operations are underway, they stated.
The encounter broke out two days after twenty-six folks had been killed as terrorists opened fireplace on vacationers in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
An officer from the Navy, an Air Power workers and one other from the Intelligence Bureau had been among the many victims of the assault, the worst terror assault in Jammu and Kashmir in latest instances.
India on Wednesday then downgraded diplomatic ties with Pakistan and introduced some strict measures, together with expulsion of Pakistani army attaches, suspension of the over six-decade-old Indus Water Treaty and speedy shutting down of the Attari land-transit publish, in view of the “cross-border hyperlinks” to the Pahalgam terror assault.
The measures had been introduced after the Cupboard Committee on Safety (CCS), underneath the chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, held a gathering and directed the safety forces to take care of “excessive vigil” and resolved to carry the perpetrators of the crime to justice.