Two soldiers were killed in Pir Panjal valley’s Nowshera Sector in Jammu on Wednesday after a gunfight broke out between the security forces and infiltrators close to the Line of Control (LoC).
Jammu-based Army Lt. Col. Devender Anand said a contact was established with infiltrators in a forest in Naushera Sector in Rajouri on Tuesday night.
“The heavily armed terrorists retaliated with fire. Two soldiers of the Indian Army were critically injured and later succumbed to their injuries and attained Martyrdom. Presently the operation is in progress,” said Lt. Col. Anand. The deceased soldiers are Naik Sawant Sandip Raghunath, aged 29, from Maharashtra’s Satara district, and Rifleman Arjun Thapa Magar, aged 25, from Nepal’s Gorkha district.
“They were brave, highly motivated and sincere soldiers. The nation will always remain indebted to them for the supreme sacrifice and devotion to duty,” said the Army spokesman.
