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Two Junior Commissioned Officers, JCOs were killed and six others injured as a group of terrorists stormed the Sunjwan Army camp in Jammu city in the early hours today.
Informing the State Legislative Assembly about the attack, State Minister for Parliamentary Affairs A R Veeri said that the encounter was still on.
IGP Jammu SD Singh Jamwal said that suspicious movement was noticed by a sentry of Sunjwan army camp around 4:55 am.
Quoting police reports, the minister said, at 4.55 this morning, a group of four to five terrorists entered into premises of JCOs family quarters and started indiscriminate firing. Mr Veeri said that Subedar Maganlal and Subedar Mohammed Ashraf were killed in the attack, as per initial reports. He said that three other injured including daughter of a soldier have been shifted to GMC Hospital Jammu.
State DGP S P Vaid said the terrorists entered from the rear side of Sunjwan Army camp where family quarters are located. IGP SD Singh Jamwal told reporters that the terrorists have been cornered in one of the family quarters. Soon after the attack, security personnel rushed to the spot and cordoned off the whole area amid a fierce gunfight.
Schools in the entire area around the camp have been closed. A high alert has been sounded in Jammu and security beefed up in and around the city.