Anurag Kumar
According to four people familiar with the situation, an army major opened fire and tossed grenades at his fellow soldiers at a forward base near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, resulting in injuries to a handful of them. The LoC is a demarcation line that separates India and Pakistan.
According to information obtained by Hindustan Times, the extremely unusual incident took place in the Thanamandi district of Rajouri. It involved a unit of the Indian Army called the 48 Rashtriya Rifles.
According to the officials, who requested that their names not be used, there have been no reports of casualties and the Major has been captured.
Up until the time this report was filed on Thursday night, the details of the incident were hazy, and there was no official comment from the army in Delhi or Jammu. According to the officials, the police officer who was responsible for the terrible incident was dealing with some personal concerns at the time. The wounded service members were taken to the hospital as quickly as possible.
According to one of the officials who was referenced above, it is thought that the Major shot into the air before he began shooting at some of the troops who were part of the unit that specializes in counter-terrorism operations. After the shooting started, other officers, including the regimental medical officer, raced to the location, and according to a second official, the major attacked those officers with grenades as soon as they arrived.
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This year, the Jammu region has been the target of two significant terrorist strikes. In the month of May, a terrorist ambush in the Kandi forest region of Rajouri resulted in the deaths of five troops and the wounding of an officer. It is believed that the same cell of terrorists was responsible for the ambush of an army truck in the month of April that resulted in the deaths of five soldiers in Poonch.
Six months before to the incident in Thanamandi, four soldiers were murdered in a fratricide attack at an officers’ mess in the Bathinda military post in the Indian state of Punjab. The attack took place.
