Militants Storm Indian Army Base, Killing Soldiers and a Civilian
11, 2018
SRINAGAR, India — A brazen weekend attack by heavily armed militants who stormed an Indian Army base in
the Jammu region killed at least 10 people, including five soldiers, army officials said on Sunday.
The attack began around 4:55 a.m. Saturday as four militants dressed in army uniforms
and armed with AK-47 assault rifles and grenades descended on Chenni, a small village on the outskirts of Jammu City, said Abdul Rehman Veeri, the parliamentary affairs minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
"We are still evacuating the trapped family members of the forces." On Sunday, army helicopters hovered over the Sunjuwan military station,
and the Indian Army chief, Gen. Bipin Rawat, arrived in Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir.
More than 200 militants were killed last year, the largest number in seven years, according
to the director general of the Jammu and Kashmir police, Shesh Paul Vaid.
Mohammad Ashraf Mir, whose son was one of the soldiers killed in the attack, said, "He died serving his nation."
The father, a resident of Kupwara, in northern Kashmir, said: "People are getting killed every day.
The group has carried out similar attacks in the Indian-administrated portion of Kashmir, particularly along the Line of Control
that divides Kashmir into two parts, held by India and Pakistan.