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Manohar Parrikar reaches Srinagar

Manohar Parrikar reaches Srinagar

| | 18 Sep 2016, 07:20 pm
Srinagar, Sept 18 (IBNS): Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar reached here to take stock of the situation in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday evening in wake of the militant strike on an army camp in Uri in which 17 soldiers were killed and 40 others were injured.

Army Chief Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag, who reached here earlier on Sunday, briefed Parrikar on the situation in Uri.

Defence Sources said, Parrikar visited the 92 base Army Hospital at the Badami Bagh cantonment here and interacted with the injured
soldiers.

The state of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday witnessed one of the deadliest attacks in a decade's time when four heavily armed terrorists sneaked into the 12 Brigade Army camp in Uri sector, leaving 17 jawans killed.

The terror strike took place 100 kms from state capital Srinagar, in North Kashmir Uri town near the line of control.

Hundreds of army jawans were sleeping in tents when terrorists threw grenades and started heavy firing on tents, leaving 17 army personnel dead.

(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)

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