Preventing an infiltration in Tangdhar district of Jammu and Kashmir, a dog 'Mansi' and her handler got killed.
When it came to making the supreme sacrifice, 'Mansi' laid down her life in the line of duty, while preventing an infiltration bid in Tangdhar sector of north Jammu and Kashmir.
Mansi, a four-year old Labrador, and her handler Bashir Ahmed War from the Territorial Army, were gunned down by infiltrating terrorists across the border in Tangdhar, about 150 kms from Srinagar. According to the reports, Mansi and War, a resident of Kupwara, were posted in the dense forests where terrorists from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir made an infiltration bid on the intervening Saturday-Sunday night. A part of the Army's Tracker Dog unit, Mansi sensed some movement and started pulling War towards an area where clouds were low.
As Mansi started barking at the intruders, she received an enemy bullet, which prompted her handler to fire at the intruders, besides calling for reinforcements. War had been taking care of the canine since she joined the Army's Tracker unit. However, even War fell to the enemy bullets, but not before reinforcements had arrived and an operation mounted to kill the infiltrators.
"When a dog is injured on the battlefield, the army jumps into action in much the same way as it would do in case of an injured soldier. Here we had two causalities -- the handler as well as the dog," said a senior Army official. War's body was on Monday brought to the Army cantonment in Srinagar where Lt General Subrata Saha, General Officer in Command of 15 Corps, laid a wreath, before it was taken to his native village in Kupwara for last rites with full military honours.
General Saha lauded the exemplary courage shown by War and Mansi. Mansi's body was recovered and after necessary documentation, which included a postmortem, a wreath was laid on her body as well. The mortal remains of the valiant friend of the Army were laid to rest at her unit lines at Trehgam in north Kashmir.
This season, Mansi and War had three kills to their credit. They were involved in the killing of a terrorist at Kaisuri ridge in Tangdhar area on May 25, followed by gunning down of two militants on July 21.
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