New Delhi: BSF on Thursday said it was not privy to any “specific” Intelligence input about the militant strike in Udhampur on a bus ferrying 44 unarmed personnel that had got “isolated” from a convoy with the lone armed soldier on board staving off the attackers who tried to enter the vehicle.
Border Security Force chief Devendra K. Pathak, said the lone armed trooper inside the bus, constable Rocky (25), retaliated very bravely and effectively to stop the militants from entering the bus and saved the other men. He praised the gallant action by Rocky who gave the supreme sacrifice to save 44 unarmed BSF men present inside the bus who were either going on leave or joining back on duty.
The DG said that Rocky neutralised one terrorist and forced the other to flee the spot as he was sitting on a hilly feature at a distance and firing a “volley of bullets” to aid his associate.
“The militant was firing from one hand and holding grenade in the other and had he been successful in lobbing the grenade inside the vehicle, there would have been many causalities,” he said.
