Army personnel on Friday laid floral tributes on the 5 breavehearts who lost their lives in a terror attack in the Pooch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday.
A team from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is to visit Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch where five Indian Army soldiers were killed on Thursday in a terrorist attack on a truck they were travelling in.
Out of the five personnel of the Rashtriya Rifles Unit who were killed in the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, four belonged to Punjab, said Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was briefed by Army Chief General Manoj Pande on the death of five soldiers in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, defence sources said on Thursday.
Addressing a press conference here, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Bathinda, Gulneet Khurana said that the gunner Desai Mohan had on "sustained interrogation" confessed to stealing an INSAS rifle and to killing four of his colleagues.
The army personnel detained by Punjab Police in connection with firing at Bathinda Military Station has confessed his involvement in killing four of his colleagues, said Indian Army on Monday.
The Army said that the incident took place in Bathinda Military Station on Wednesday evening. The Army added that it has "no connection" with the incident that took place at the Bathinda Military Station yesterday in which four jawans succumbed to injuries.
"It is a very sad incident. There should be a high-level inquiry into the incident," Senior SAD leader Prem Singh Chandumajra said in a press conference in Chandigarh.
Punjab Police on Wednesday registered an FIR against two unknown persons in the Bathinda Military Station firing where at least four jawans were killed.
One District Reserve Guard (DRG) jawan got injured in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast planted by Naxals in the Bahker forest on Friday, police said.
A Pakistani infiltrator was apprehended by Border Security Force personnel on Tuesday at the International Border in Gujarat's Banaskantha district, according to an official statement.