NIA team to visit site of Poonch terror attack in J&K

A visit to Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district by a team from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been planned following the terrorist attack on a truck carrying five Indian Army soldiers, resulting in their martyrdom.

A team of officials from the National Investigation Agency (NIA), including officers with the ranks of Deputy Inspector General and Superintendent of Police, is set to visit the site in Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir where five Indian Army soldiers were killed in a terrorist attack on Thursday. The team, accompanied by forensic experts, is expected to gather initial information about the incident. The attack has caused shock and dismay across the country.

Meanwhile, a Bomb Disposal Squad and Special Operations Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmir Police reached the spot at Bhimber Gali in Poonch where five soldiers lost their lives in the terror attack.

A massive search operation was launched on Friday morning in the forests of Jammu and Kashmir’s Bata-Doriya area to track the terrorists who attacked an Army vehicle in Poonch, killing five jawans.

The deceased soldiers identified as havildar Mandeep Singh, lance naik Debashish Baswal, lance naik Kulwant Singh, sepoy Harkrishan Singh and Sepoy Sewak Singh were attached with the army’s Rashtriya Rifles unit and were deployed for counterterrorist operations in the area.