what happened in Uri attack?
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At around 5:30 a.m. on 18 September, four militants attacked an Indian Army brigade headquarters in Uri, near the Line of Control in a pre-dawn ambush. They were said to have lobbed 17 grenades in three minutes. As a rear administrative base camp with tents caught fire, 17 army personnel were killed during the attack. An additional 19-30 soldiers were reported to have been injured. A gun battle ensued lasting six hours, during which all the four militants were killed.[4][6][22][23][24] Combing operations continued to flush out additional terrorists thought to be alive.[10]
Most of the soldiers killed were from the 10th battalion, Dogra Regiment (10 Dogra) and 6th battalion, Bihar Regiment (6 Bihar).[24] One of the injured soldiers succumbed to his injuries on 19 September at RR Hospital in New Delhi, followed by another soldier on 24 September, bringing the death toll to 19.[2][3][25]
The casualties were primarily believed to have occurred as a result of non-fire retardant transition tents. This was the time of a troops shift, whereby troops from 6 Bihar were replacing troops from 10 Dogra. The incoming troops were housed in tents, which are normally avoided in sensitive areas around the LOC like Uri. The attackers sneaked into the camp breaching heavy security and seemed to know exactly where to strike. Seven of the personnel killed were support staff, including cooks and barbers.[26][27].
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What happened during the Uri attack?
Reported as the ‘deadliest attack on security forces in Kashmir in two decades’, the attack by armed militants on an army base near the town of Uri in Jammu & Kashmir’s Baramulla district on September 18, 2016, shocked the entire nation. About 10 kilometres east of the Line of Control with Pakistan, the Uri hadn’t even woken up when, at around 5:30 am, four militants attacked the Indian Army brigade headquarters. 17 grenades were lobbed in 3 minutes, killing 19 army personnel during the attack. Additionally, 80-100 soldiers were reportedly injured even though all the four militants were killed in a gun battle that’s said to have lasted for six hours.
Many of the soldiers killed were from the 10th Battalion, Dogra Regiment and 6th Battalion, Bihar Regiment. Coming close on the heels of two other terrorist attacks against Indian security forces – the Gurdaspur attack in July 2015 and the Pathankot Air Force Station attack in January 2016 – the Uri attack seems to have coerced the Indian authorities into retaliating.
On September 19, 2016, a team led by Home Minister Rajnath Singh, then-Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, then-Chief of Army Staff Dalbir Singh and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval sat down to review the situation. The National Investigation Agency was quick to file a first information report (FIR), taking over the investigation from the J&K police. The Pakistan-based terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed was thought to have carried out the planning and execution of the attack. On September 21, India summoned the Pakistan High Commission with a letter that contained details of Jaish-e-Mohammed’s involvement with the attack.
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