Rajouri: Rifleman Sukhbir Singh and Naik Prem Bahadur Khatri died in the line of duty.
Two soldiers died in the line of duty after they were wounded in unprovoked gunfire by Pakistani forces along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Naik Prem Bahadur Khatri and rifleman Sukhbir Singh were wounded after the Pakistani army resorted to an unprovoked violation of the ceasefire in the Sundarbani sector of Rajouri today, the army said.
“The troops themselves responded immediately to enemy fire,” the army said.
On Thursday, an army commissioned noncommissioned officer (JCO), Subedar Swatantra Singh, was killed and a civilian was injured when Pakistani troops shelled and fired at outposts and villages along the Line of Control in the Poonch district of Jammu. and Kashmir.
In another incident on Thursday, two soldiers were killed in the line of duty in a terror attack on the outskirts of the Jammu and Kashmir capital Srinagar. The soldiers were part of an army patrol team that was hit hard by terrorists, police said.
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