Three General Reserve Engineer Force (GREF) personnel have lost their lives in an attack on GREF camp in Akhnoor, Jammu and Kashmir.
There was an attack on GREF platoon in Batla at 1:15 am and three labourers have been killed.Manish Mehta, Defence PRO
The area has been cordoned off and search operations are underway. Schools and colleges have also been closed as the area is in high alert. Reports say firing has stopped now and there has been no contact between the forces and the militants since a few hours.
Reports from the area said the terrorists, whose exact number was not known, managed to escape after the attack.
High alert was sounded in Jammu district in general and in Khour tehsil in particular.
The GREF is the parent cadre force of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) that builds and maintains border roads in the country.
This was the first terror attack in Jammu in 2017.
Several unidentified militants attacked the camp which was housing road construction workers and killed three before fleeing. Two or three gunmen launched the raid, close to India's disputed border with Pakistan, a police official from Jourian told Reuters.
Gun shots had been heard in the wee hours of the morning near the camp.
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