SRINAGAR: Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag on Wednesday visited Nagrota army base where a terror attack claimed the lives of two officers and five soldiers and left half a dozen other soldiers injured a day earlier.
The Army Chief was briefed by the local commanders on Tuesday’s attack even as combing operations at the base were underway and live or unexploded bombs left behind by the three slain militants were being defused.
“The combing operations were resumed on Wednesday morning to ensure there are no more terrorists hiding within the Army unit. Also blinds (unexploded shells) are being destroyed at the site by the bomb disposal squad,” the spokesman of Army’s Nagrota-based 16 Corps, Lt. Col. Manish Mehta, said.
Two Army majors Gosavi Kunal Mannadir and Akshay Girish Kumar and five soldiers were killed and half a dozen others wounded when a group of three heavily-armed militants wearing police uniforms targeted the Army’s 166 Medium Regiment unit located 3 kilometres from the 16 Corps headquarters at Nagrota.
