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Pakistan violates ceasefire at LoC; two Indian jawans martyred, Army kills 3 terrorists

By FnF Defence Correspondent | PUBLISHED: 12, Jul 2017, 18:15 pm IST | UPDATED: 12, Jul 2017, 19:38 pm IST

Pakistan violates ceasefire at LoC; two Indian jawans martyred, Army kills 3 terrorists Jammu: Two Army jawans were today martyred when Pakistan army opened fire on an Army patrol in North Kashmir’s Kupwara, according to media report.

Earlier this month too Pakistan violated the ceasefire by firing indiscriminately at Indian Army forward posts and villages along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Sunday evening.

A jawan was also killed on June 16 according to PTI, in Pakistan firing on forward posts along the LoC in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir. On June 26, the occasion of Eid-ul Fitr, the Pakistani army fired small arms and automatic weapons and lobbed mortars along the LoC in Bhimbher Gali sector of Rajouri, according to Times of India.

IANS quoted defence ministry sources saying that the soldiers were killed in Furkiya area of Chowkibal sector, which is a known route used by militants  for infiltrating into the Kashmir Valley from Pakistan.

The incident comes a day after three militants were killed in an overnight encounter with security forces in Budgam district of Kashmir.

The Pakistan Army on Sunday also targeted villages and forward posts along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district by resorting to heavy mortar shelling and firing automatic weapons in yet another ceasefire violation.

There have been 23 incidents of ceasefire violation, one BAT attack and two infiltration bids by Pakistan in June this year in which 4 people including 3 jawans were killed and 12 injured, officials said.

Meanwhile, At least three terrorists were killed by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam in an encounter that began on Tuesday evening.

According to early information, the three militants were part of the Hizbul Mujahideen. Forces recovered their bodies along with at least one self-loading rifle but the terrorists' identities were yet to be verified.

The encounter took place in Radpug village of Budgam's Mahagam area at around 7.30 pm on Tuesday. A joint security team of the Central Reserve Police Force, the Indian Army's Rashtriya Rifles and the Jammu and Kashmir Police's Special Operations Group was carrying out a cordon-and-search operation when the made contact with the terrorists.

The cordon-and-search operation was launched in the aftermath of Monday night's attack on Amarnath Yatra pilgrims in Anantnag. 7 people had died after terrorists opened fire on a bus ferrying the pilgrims from Srinagar to Jammu.

While the Budgam encounter is beleived to have ended today morning, search operations are still on in the area.
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