Uri attack toll rises to 19

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, September 30

With the death of Naik Raj Kishor Singh, a resident of Bhojur district in Bihar, at RR Hospital in New Delhi today, the death toll in the Uri attack rose to 19.

An Army officer said the soldier had received bullet wounds during the gunfight.

On September 18, four fidayeen stormed an Army base in the wee hours, killing 18 soldiers and wounding nearly two dozen others. The four fidayeen of the Jaish-e-Mohammed were also killed in the gunfight.

The Uri attack was the highest casualty suffered by the Army in a single attack in over two decades of violence in J&K. The attack escalated tension between India and Pakistan.

Ten days after the Uri attack, India for the first time carried out a surgical raid on launch pads of militants across the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) on Thursday evening.

Meanwhile, the Uri attack is being investigated by the NIA. New Delhi has already given proof to Pakistan of the cross-border origin of the Uri attackers.