Read: Live updates on Uri attack“We strongly condemn the cowardly terror attack in Uri. The blaze killed 12 soldiers and the rest died in the gunfight, sources added. Read: Uri terror attack: Rajnath postpones Russia, US visits; calls emergency meetingThe camp is inhabited by soldiers who mostly guard the LoC. A militant raid in December 2014, also near Uri, had killed eight soldiers and three policemen. In February, the army lost three soldiers in the deadliest suicide bomber attack in Srinagar in many years.

Source: Hindustan Times September 18, 2016 07:04 UTC