Agencies
Jammu, June 24: The Pakistani Border Action Team (BAT) members were armed with ‘special daggers’ and ‘headband cameras’ to mutilate and record the attack on the Indian Army patrol party+ after entering 600 meters across the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district.
The attack left two Indian soldiers dead while one BAT member was killed in retaliatory action by Indian troops. Army troops during search and sanitation operations, recovered the body of a member of the BAT team along LoC in Gulpur sector of Poonch district Friday.
“The body of the intruder killed in the BAT attempt June 22 has been retrieved and handed over to the local police,” a senior Army officer said. “Arms, ammunition and other war-like stores including a special dagger and a headband with a camera, knife, one AK rifle, 3 magazines, 2 grenades besides dresses and bags were recovered which reflects the barbaric mindset of the Pakistan army,” he said.
“The resolute action of our soldiers didn’t let the nefarious plan (of mutilating bodies and recording it on camera) succeed,” officer said. Giving details, the officer said that a special class of dagger and a knife was meant to engineer quick mutilation and beheading of jawans killed in the firing exchanges and it has been foiled by the quick action by Indian soldiers.
The BAT member was wearing headband with camera on his head to record the action and possible mutilation of jawans, which was prevented by other troops who shot dead one of them and injured another, he said. The officer said it is matter of investigation whether the camera was live connected with Pakistan army establishments across the border.
“The data and details of the camera will be analysed,” he said. “We are confident that another BAT member has also been killed but his body was taken aback by the other members of the BAT,” he said.
