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| Rain gods play spoilsport at the time of final assault on Day 6 | | Lt Gen Jaswal likely to visit Mendhar | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 18: On Day 6 of Beri Rakh encounter in Mendhgar, Poonch, rain gods played the "spoilsport" in the wee hours of Sunday morning when troops were preparing to launch a final assault.
GOC-in-C northern command, Lt Gen B S Jaswal was scheduled to visit Beri Rakh on Monday along with other senior army officers of the northern command to take stock of the situation.
The gunbattle started in Beri Rakh forests on July 13 after Maj Amit Thenge was killed and six others, including Col Ajay Katoch, were wounded in ambush by four odd militants.
Two of them were killed by troops in a gunbattle on Thursday. The remaining two, however, could not be killed, owing to the dense and treacherous forest cover. A senior police officer said the two militants exchanged fire with security forces from 2 am to 5 am today.
As a final assault was to be launched at about 5.30 am, senior army and police officers, including Poonch SSP Manmohan Singh, had reached the spot, he added. The officer said when the troops were ready to launch the assault to kill the hiding militants, it started raining heavily all of a sudden.
It kept raining for few hours and the assault could not be launched, he added.
The officer said though police and army jawans fired in the direction of militants after it stopped raining, there was no retaliation.
The militants had either escaped, or had been killed, he added, saying it could be known only after a thorough combing of the Beri Rakh forests was carried out.The officer said Lt Gen Jaswal was likely to visit troops engaged in the operation at Beri Rakh to take stock of the situation.
He said a massive combing operation was likely to be launched in the woods to hunt down the militants.
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