A Pakistani infiltrator was killed along the Line of Control in the Nowshera sector of Rajouri district late Friday night. According to a Jammu based Defence Spokesman, "an infiltration bid was foiled in the Nowshera sector on the intervening night of 17/18 at around 11.00 pm". The infiltrator was killed while he was negotiating a minefield in the forward area.The Defence spokesman said, the dead body of the infiltrator was recovered along with warlike stores on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the mortal remains of the three Indian soldiers, killed in the snow slide in North Kashmir's Kupwara district were being dispatched to their native places after completing the necessary legal formalities. The three soldiers who were part of a patrol party near the LoC in Machhal Sector, Kupwara, were hit by a massive snow slide while they were shifting another soldier diagnosed with hyperthermia.
The soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty have been identified as Gunner Souvik Hazra, Lance Naik Mukesh Kumar and Naik Gaikwad Manoj Laxman Rao.
According to a Srinagar based Defence Spokesman, Naik Gaikwad Manoj Laxman Rao was forty one years old and had joined the Army in 2002. He belonged to Village Chunchkkede, Post Dhule, Tehsil, Dhule District in Maharashtra. The braveheart is survived by his wife. Lance Naik Mukesh Kumar was twenty two years old and had joined the Army in 2018.
