Pakistan troops cross LoC, ambush Indian patrol, 2 soldiers killed indianexpress.com

Army sources familiar with the circumstances of the ambush — the third of its kind attempted in Poonch this year said the patrol was one of several sent out to ensure jihadists did not use the intense firing, which had been raging since the previous night, to cross the Line of Control.Two Indian soldiers were killed in a cross-border ambush near the Line of Control, less than 10 km from the town of Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian Army said Thursday. The ambush, carried out by a suspected Pakistan border action team in the midst of intense mortar and small arms exchanges that raged through the day, targeted a patrol operating near Gurunj Post, close to the village of Khari Karmara.