KASHMIR: Two Indian soldiers were killed and four injured in the Rajouri district in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir on Friday.
The Indian army said an explosive device was detonated by “terrorists” in the occupied territory.
Since last month, the Indian army has been undertaking search operations in the Rajouri district to find the “rebels” it believes were responsible for an attack on an army convoy that claimed the lives of five soldiers earlier.
The army stated that a search team “established contact with a group of extremists well entrenched in a cave” in a “thickly vegetated location with rocky and steep cliffs.”
AFP said the alleged rebels set off an explosive device, which left two soldiers dead and four others injured.
The Indian Express reported that mobile internet services were suspended in Rajouri following the incident.
The Indian army was also targeted on April 12 when two masked individuals shot four troops while sleeping at the Bathinda military installation in Punjab. Due to the revival of a separatist movement in this northern state, tensions have been very high.
The Indian police said to have detained a soldier responsible for the deaths of four troops four days later. Three troops were killed in an attack by terrorists on an Indian army base in Rajouri in August of last year, and two of the attackers were also killed in the gunfight.
