Intelligence agencies have alerted security forces about presence of nearly 100 terrorists in launch pads across the LoC

With no let-up in Pakistan's hostile activities on the borders, a soldier of the Indian Army was injured in a sniper attack along the Line of Control (LoC) in Keri Battal area of Akhnoor sector in Jammu district on Friday evening.

- Ravi Krishnan Khajuria

JAMMU:

On Tuesday, captain Karamjit Singh Bakshi of Ranchi and Naik Mukesh Singh Manhas of Uttervehini in Jammu's Samba were killed and another soldier injured after an improvised explosive device (IED), suspected to have been planted by Pakistani terrorists, went off along the Line of Control (LoC) in the same Battal area of Akhnoor sector. "Today at around 18.30 hrs (6.30 pm), Pakistani troops of the 10 PoK carried out a sniper attack on an Indian post hitting a soldier on his shoulder. The soldier has been shifted to a garrison hospital in Akhnoor," said people familiar with the development. The army hasn't yet issued any statement.