Baku-APA. At least two officers and five soldiers of the Indian Armed Forces were killed on Tuesday in a militant attack on an army unit in the town of Nagrota in the northern country's state of Jammu and Kashmir, a statement of the Northern Command of India's army, APA reports quoting Sputnik.
Earlier in the day, media reported that the attack had claimed lifes of three India's servicemen.
"In the early hours of 29 November 2016, a group of heavily armed terrorists disguised in police uniform targeted an Army unit located three kilometers [1.8 miles] from the Corps Headquarters at Nagrota. The terrorist forced their entry into the Officers Mess complex by throwing grenades and firing at the sentries. In the initial counter action, one officer and three soldiers of the Army were martyred," the statement published on the Northern Command's Facebook account.
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