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Timeline: Deadliest attacks on security forces in India
We’ve compiled here a timeline of some of the biggest militant attacks on security forces going back over a decade.
In one of the deadliest attacks on the Indian Army, heavily armed militants attacked a strategically important military base in north Kashmir’s Uri on Sunday morning and killed 17 soldiers.
Read | Kashmir’s Uri attacked: Why the key Indian Army base is on militants’ radar
We’ve compiled here a timeline of some of the biggest militant attacks on security forces going back over a decade:
■ May 22, 2016
Casualty: Six soldiers of 29 Assam Rifles
Location: Chandel district in Manipur
■ January 2, 2016
Casualty: Seven security personnel and four attackers killed
Location: Pathankot Air Force Station
■ June 4, 2015
Casualty: 17 armymen killed and at least 16 injured
Location: Army convoy ambushed in Manipur’s Chandel district
■ December 5, 2014
Casualty: Eight army and three police personnel; eight militants; and two civilians
Location: Separate attacks in Uri, Ahmadnagar, Shopian and Pulwama
■ June 24, 2013
Casualty: 10 armymen
Location: Hyderpora, outskirts of Srinagar
■ July 19, 2008
Casualty: 10 armymen
Location: IED blast at Narbal Crossing, outskirts of Srinagar
■ June 24, 2005
Casualty: Nine soldiers killed, and 21 others injuried
Location: Rashtriya Rifles convoy targeted along the Dal Lake, Srinagar
■ May 23, 2004
Casualty: At least 30 people, including 19 BSF personnel, killed
Location: IED explosion at Lower Munda, near Qazigund, on the Srinagar-Jammu highway
■ June 28, 2003
Casualty: 12 soldiers killed
Location: Suicide attack on army installation at the Dogra Regiment camp in Sunjwan, on the outskirts of Jammu city
■ May 14, 2002
Casualty: 34 people, including 22 army men, killed
Location: Militants stormed an army camp and attacked families of soldiers at Kaluchak, about 10 km from Jammu
