Ammo Dump Up In Flames, Anantnag under emergency

[A.Rahman]

Army's ammunition depot on fire, 10 soldiers among 30 injured



Srinagar, Aug 11: At least 30 persons including ten soldiers were injured after Army's biggest ammunition depot in south Kashmir's Islamabad district caught fire on Saturday morning, police sources said.

They said the fire emanated from Army's 21 field ammunition ordinance depot at Khundroo Achabal this morning and spread within no time. "People are evacuating the area and the blasts are being heard around 12 kilometres away from the site of the depot," a police official said.

Authorities have declared red alert in the area.

The cause of the fire which broke out around 9.15 am in the 21 Field Ordinance Depot was not immediately known, a police spokesman said.


"Investigations are on to ascertain the cause of the fire," the police official said.



The explosions at the Khandroo Field Ordnance Depot, 67 km from here, sent shells and splinters flying over villages situated nearby. The depot is located inside a heavily guarded army camp.



Explosions rocked the area as a result of the fire and villagers in the nearby localities have been asked to leave their houses and take shelter elsewhere, the spokesman added.



“The fire is uncontrolled and people including soliders are fleeing from the depot”, a solider, who managed to escape from the area told to a local news agency.

Army installations are a routine target of Kashmiri Guerrillas in India-occupied Jammu & Kashmir.



Hizbul Mujahideen has claimed the responsiblity for the attack for blasting the ammunition depot. A spokesman of the outfit said that it was our second attempt to blast the ammunition depot. Earlier in 1993 Abu Bakr Shaheed tried to plant the bomb inside the depot but unluckily the bomb exploded outside the target, the spokesman said.



Hizbul Mujahideen has announced a reward to the squad for this successful attack inflicting heavy casaulties on Indian Army.

 

[A.Rahman]

looks like that they lit the fuse before Aug 15th

 

[EagleEyes]

A.Rahman,

Your incorrect. India is much more stable today than it ever was since its independence.

 

[Marathaman]

looks like that they lit the fuse before Aug 15th

Laugh it off guys, laugh it off. Nice double standards on defence.pk.

 

[A.Rahman]

 

[EagleEyes]

Can be used for the banner.

Condolences for the soldiers killed and those they killed.

 

[A.Rahman]

They must have done hell of a planning; how did they managed to infiltrate the camp?

Anyway;one less bullet that could have been used to kill innocent Kashmiri civilians.

 

[EagleEyes]

I think the picture i posted again was recently taken. I guess they called the media to before the launch.

 

[Marathaman]

They must have done hell of a planning; how did they managed to infiltrate the camp?

Anyway;one less bullet that could have been used to kill innocent Kashmiri civilians.

Hey awesome dudes.
Glad to know that you appreciate the awesome planning done by Hizb-ul-Mujahideen. Enjoy the fireworks.

P.S. Innocent kashmiris did die. Guess who is responsible.

 

[EagleEyes]

Only three people have been killed. Should be friends or relatives of the soldiers.

http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=2&theme=&usrsess=1&id=166037

 

[Marathaman]

NDTV Correspondent
Sunday, August 12, 2007 (Anantnag)
A fire at an ordnance depot in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir is now under control.

The fire, which began on Saturday, has resulted in five deaths, which includes three Army personnel, one fire fighter & a civilian.

Seventeen people including fire fighters and civilians have been injured.

Around 30-40,000 people have left their homes in the area.

Thousands of people who had left their homes in the area are now returning.

But villagers in six villages have been advised not to return yet as there are several live shells in the area.

The Army has claimed that the fire was accidental and has ruled out any sabotage saying the claims of militant outfits in this regard were ''baseless''.

17 firefighters? One civilian? Don't tell me that they are Indians and thus deserve to die by some weird moral standards.

Btw...the army claims that the fire was accidental. So don't celebrate your "victory" too early.

 

[Keysersoze]

Btw...the army claims that the fire was accidental. So don't celebrate your "victory" too early.

Gotta concur with the above......Indian Ammo storage is not exactly what you might call secure...I have read about three or four major explosions in the last decade.

 

[Awesome]

Laugh it off guys, laugh it off. Nice double standards on defence.pk.

We do openly support the separatists fighting for independence within J&K. Or was that not ever clear?

 

[Marathaman]

We do openly support the separatists fighting for independence within J&K. Or was that not ever clear?

That is quite clear, you support of terrorism.

However, I did not expect, that in your dreams of a fragmented India, you would also celebrate the death of innocent people in kashmir.

As I have said earlier, you don't really care about Kashmiris. Its all a big charade to capture more land, and satisfy your religious egos.

 

[Awesome]

That is quite clear, you support of terrorism.

However, I did not expect, that in your dreams of a fragmented India, you would also celebrate the death of innocent people in kashmir.

As I have said earlier, you don't really care about Kashmiris. Its all a big charade to capture more land, and satisfy your religious egos.

I do not celebrate death of people nor do I express any glee over the death of your soldiers. I support it however as your government has put them there to kill and subdue our people and our people, the Kashmiris, are not terrorists.