Another army man succumbs, was injured in Thursday’s militant attack in Tral
Pulwama: An Army man injured in yesterdays militant attack on government forces in Nader Panzoo area of Pulwama district has succumbed.
The death toll in the attack has reached two as one army man died on Thursday night.
Police sources said that the militants attacked Nader-Panzoo area this evening as a result of which two soldiers were injured and they were shifted to 92 base army hospital.
Militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) on Friday claimed the responsibility for the attack on army camp at Panzoo area of Nader, Tral in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district late Thursday evening.
A JeM spokesperson Mohammad Hassan in a statement to a local news gathering agency claimed that three army men were killed in the attack while several others were injured.
He said the attack was carried out as part of revenge against the “atrocities” inflicted upon the innocent people and Kulgam “martyrs”.
“Such attacks will continue,” the JeM spokesperson said.