Assam’s Son Fighting For Life After Being Injured In Blast At Pulwama
- Jun 22, 2019,
- Updated Jun 22, 2019, 1:43 AM IST
Guwahati, June 21, 2019:
A soldier of the 44th Gorkha Rifles from Assam’s Sivasagar district who sustained serious injuries in the improvised explosive device (IED) blast is currently fighting for life at the Srinagar hospital.
The blast took place near Eidgah Arihal on the Arihal-Lassipora road in Pulwama in the south Kashmir’s district on June 17th, 2019.
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The jawan named- Prashant Gogoi, who originally hails from Amguri Khemdoi Kakoti Village was one among the nine soldiers whose convoy was attacked at the blast.
Gogoi joined the Indian Army on December 21st, 2009.
He was on a month’s leave and had resumed his job on June 10th, 2019. The Army jawan is currently admitted at the ICU.
As per reports, the Army Casper, a bullet and mine-proof vehicle of the 44 Rashtriya Rifles was targeted by the IED explosion near Eidgah Arihal on the Arihal-Lassipora road.
*What is an IED?
- An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional military explosives, such as an artillery shell, attached to a detonating mechanism. IEDs are commonly used as roadside bombs.
- IEDs are generally seen in heavy terrorist actions or in asymmetric unconventional warfare by insurgent guerrillas or commando forces in a theatre of operations. In the second Iraq War, IEDs were used extensively against US-led invasion forces and by the end of 2007 they had become responsible for approximately 63% of coalition deaths in Iraq. They are also used in Afghanistan by insurgent groups, and have caused over 66% of coalition casualties in the 2001–present Afghanistan War.