Uri infiltration toll mounts to 6
Fayaz Bukhari
Srinagar, May 12: Four bodies of militants who were killed on Wednesday in an infiltration bid near the Line of Control (LoC) in North Kashmir’s Uri sector have been buried today while one more body of the infiltrators was found near the LoC taking the toll to 6.
The four unidentified bodies of the infiltrators were handed over to the police yesterday and a team of doctors from Srinagar and Baramulla conducted postmortem and took the DNA samples of the bodies. Police also took the photographs of the four bodies and have preserved them so that if any one makes a claim tomorrow, these photographs can be displaced.
Today morning the bodies were buried in village Zamoor Pattan near the LoC and people of the village took part in their last rites.
The commander of 12th Infantry Brigade based in Uri, Brigadier D S Raju said that six infiltrators were killed in the operation that has already concluded. He said that troops saw two more bodies near the LoC but they had fallen in a ravine and tropps will try to retrieve them.
The Brigadier said that the bodies were not identified and they are believed to be foreigners. However, militant outfit to which they belonged is not known.
In the meantime Hizbul Mujahideen has claimed that the militants belonged to the outfit. A Hizb spokesman told a local news agency here that the militants were active in Uri area and were not infiltrators.
The army foiled a major infiltration bid in Uri sector on May 10 during an operation that was launched after army along the LoC in Maidan Nala area of Uri sector observed movement of five to six militants trying to infiltrate into Uri sector. Five militants were killed on May 10 while one more died on May 11 during the encounter with the troops.
Army sources said large numbers of militants are waiting along the LoC for infiltration into Kashmir Valley to fill the void created due to successful operations by the security forces in Kashmir Valley during past few months.
The sources said that the infiltrators want to take advantage of the damaged fence along the LoC. The LoC fence was damaged due to heavy snowfall this year.
However, army has intensified its patrolling along the LoC to prevent infiltration.
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