INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ANANTNAG: Col Manpreet Singh and Maj Ashish Dhonchak of 19 Rashtriya Rifles, and DSP Humayun Bhat of J-K Police lost their lives during a
fierce gunfight with terrorists in the forests surrounding Gadool village of Kokernag in Anantnag district on the intervening night of
The terrorists are suspected to be from The Resistance Front (TRF), a shadow group of the Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Taiba.An Army soldier
and five policemen were wounded in the shootout, which is still ongoing
On August 10, two civilians and a soldier had suffered shrapnel wounds from a grenade explosion during an operation to flush out terrorists
hiding in the woods in the same village.Altogether 119 Army, CAPF and J-K Police personnel have been killed in terrorism-related attacks in
the Kashmir zone, and 24 in the Jammu region, from August 5, 2019 to August 1 this year.Preliminary reports indicate that two to three
terrorists were spotted and encircled in Gadool following a tip-off
The operation was conducted by a combined force of the Army and police, led by Col Singh, a decorated officer who had earlier received the
Sena Medal.The forces came under fire from behind the trees
In the initial exchange of fire, the three officers were gravely wounded
They died at the military hospital in Batwara, Srinagar, where they were flown for treatment
He was on the verge of completing his tenure with Rashtriya Rifles in just four months
Following this, Singh was expected to be posted at a peaceful station
His father was a Naik in the Army.Maj Dhonchak, a Sena Medal recipient in 2023, hailed from Panipat district in Haryana, but further details
three-month-old son, having gotten married only last year
The DSP was the son of former DIG Ghulam Hasan Bhat and originally hailed from Tral in Pulwama district
The family now lives at VIP colony near Srinagar airport in Humhama.WatchJ-K Police DSP Humayun Bhat laid to rest in Anantnag amid presence
