10 infiltrators killed as troops foil two bids

However, they were foiled by the Army in an encounter in which 10 terrorists and a jawan were killed. As the Government mulled various options on India’s response to the cross-border terror attack on Sunday in which 18 jawans were killed, a crucial meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security(CCS) has been convened on Wednesday. “Two infiltration bids by militants from across the Line of Control(LoC) have been foiled in Uri and Nowgam sectors today. At both places the operations are in progress,” an army spokesman said in Srinagar. 

The spokesman refused to comment on the number of militants killed in the ongoing operations so far, saying details will be made public in due course. He, however, said one soldier was killed in the operation in Nowgam sector. Army sources in Delhi, however, said that 10 terrorists were killed in the encounter with the army in the Uri sector. The bodies have not yet been recovered, they added. 

The infiltration bids came two days after four militants of Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad stormed an army base in Uri Sector, killing 18 soldiers and injuring several others. All the four militants were also killed. 

The terror attack has heightened tensions between India and Pakistan. India has blamed Uri attack on militants from Pakistan, an allegation refuted by the latter. India however has said it has clinching evidence to substantiate its claim. The Indian Army had recovered arms, ammunitions, food and medicine packets with Pakistani markings during its combing operations in Uri.