Army officer was killed in action and three soldiers were injured during a gunfight with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar. The army’s 16 Corps in a post on X said the Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) Naib Subedar Rakesh Kumar was killed in action in a joint counter-terror operation launched in Kishtwar’s Bhart Ridge on Saturday. Naib Subedar Kumar was from the 2 Para (SF).
<p>A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of the Army’s special forces laid down his life on Sunday, while three other soldiers were injured in a gunfight with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district.</p> <p>The deceased soldier has been identified as Naib Subedar Rakesh Kumar of 2 Para. The operation comes amid an intensified hunt underway since the killing of two Village Defence Guards (VDGs) recently.</p> <p>The encounter broke out around 11 am when joint search parties of the Army and police intercepted the terrorists in the Keshwan forest, a few kilometres from the spot where the bullet-riddled bodies of VDGs Nazir Ahmad and Kuldeep Kumar were found.</p> <blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”> <p dir=”ltr” lang=”en”><a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/GOC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#GOC</a> <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhiteknightCorps?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#WhiteknightCorps</a>… Read More »Army Jawan Killed, Three Others Injured In Encounter In J&K’s Kishtwar
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