Army repels terrorist attack on village guard

The Army said it thwarted an attack on the house of a village defence guard (VDG) and a nearby security post in the wee hours of Monday in Gund area of Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir.

Army officials said that the infiltrators attacked the VDG's house around 3am and during the initial exchange of fire, an Army man and a relative of the VDG member was injured, adding that they suspect an infiltrator has been killed, as well. The Army officials also said that they can't confirm any casualty on the other side till the bodies are retrieved.

VDGs, formerly known as Village Defence Committees, is a civilian militia first established in the mid-1990s in Chenab Valley of Jammu division to counter the militancy in remote hilly villages along the Line of Control, which was disbanded in mid-2000's and was revived after 2022.


"Cordon and search operation in the area is going on and we suspect that three to four infiltrators were part of this group which have now fled back into the nearby forest area. They initially threw a grenade followed by a volley of bullets," said an official.