J&K: Army to conduct inquiry into Samba terror attack

Written By Unknown on Jumat, 27 September 2013 | 22.44

NEW DELHI: The Army is going to conduct a court of inquiry (CoI) into the alarming lapses that allowed the three fidayeen (suicide) militants to almost effortlessly storm one of its camps at Samba and kill four soldiers and injure two others on Thursday.

Sources said the CoI headed by at least a colonel-rank officer will go into the entire sequence of events during the terror attack, in which the three militants were killed after a protracted gun-battle, as well as laxity in adhering to standard operating procedures.

The attack led to the death of 16 cavalry armoured unit's second-in-command, Lt Col Bikramjit Singh, and soldiers Kiran Kumar, Inder Singh and MS Rao. The unit commanding officer, Colonel Avin Uthaiya, was also hit on the chest and shoulder by two bullets but is now stable after being evacuated to a military hospital.

There was only a solitary sentry, sepoy Kiran Kumar, at the officers' mess gate when the militants struck the Samba camp after first attacking the Hiranagar police station around 20km away.

The alertness level was poor and there was complacency despite the Army having earlier received intelligence inputs that militants were looking to hit targets in the Jammu region, after infiltrating across the border, in a bid to widen the arc of terror in Jammu and Kashmir, as was reported by TOI earlier.

Moreover, the Army does not seem to have learned much from the series of militant attacks on military camps over the last 25 years of militancy in J&K. "Quite a number of Army camps, especially in the Jammu region, still have weak perimeter defences without multi-tiered security layers or electronically-controlled fences and night-vision devices," said a source.


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