Amir Karim Tantray
Tribune News Service
Jammu, November 29Three army men, including a major, were killed as a group of militants attacked an artillery unit on the old Jammu-Srinagar highway at Nagrota, 15 km from here, on Tuesday morning.Nagrota is the headquarters of 16 Corps.The attack started at 5.45 am when heavily armed militants lobbed a grenade on the army installation.The army is yet to confirm the deaths.The army has cordoned off the area and the encounter is going on at the officer’s mess. Sound of loud explosions could be heard there.(Follow The Tribune on Facebook; and Twitter @thetribunechd)Meanwhile, the district administration has ordered that all schools in Nagrota town would remain closed on Tuesday.

Samba: 3 militants killed in infiltration bid

(For representation only) A border guard was injured in the gunfight and four others, among them a Deputy Inspector General, were injured when a grenade that the militants had carried exploded while they were pulling out the bodies. PTI file photo

Amir Karim Tantray

Tribune News Service

Samba, November 29

Three suspected militants were killed in a gun battle between them and the Border Security Force when they tried to cross the International Border into India in Samba’s Ramgarh sector on Tuesday morning.

The suspected militants were hiding in a tubewell in Ramgarh’s Fatwal.

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A border guard was injured in the gunfight and four others, among them a Deputy Inspector General, were injured when a grenade that the militants had carried exploded while they were pulling out the bodies.