Terrorists assaulted an army truck in Akhnoor, Jammu & Kashmir.
An Indian Army vehicle was attacked in Jammu and Kashmir’s Akhnoor on Monday morning. The alert soldiers foiled the attack.
“An army vehicle was fired upon in the Battal area of Akhnoor. No injury or causality was reported. A search operation has been launched,” said Army officials.
“Alert troops foiled the likely terror attack,” they added.
Last week, two soldiers and two civilians were killed after terrorists ambushed army vehicles in the Baramulla district.
According to officials, a convoy carrying personnel of a Rashtriya Rifles unit and civilian porters was moving to the Nagin post in the Afrawat range when terrorists opened fire on two army trucks at Botapathri, roughly 6km from the tourist hub of Gulmarg.
Days before that, a local doctor and six non-local labourers were gunned down by terrorists at a tunnel construction site in the Gagangir area of Ganderbal.
On Saturday, the Indian Army’s Romeo Force, in a joint operation with Special Operations Group (SOG) police, busted a terror hideout in the Balnoi sector in Poonch.
A string of terror attacks unleashed on Jammu and Kashmir over the last two weeks have claimed over a dozen lives, disrupting the peace in the union territory weeks after its assembly elections.
