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The remains of those killed were repatriated in 1994. 12 U.S. soldiers were also killed. 64–77 (including warriors) [302] [303] 1879: September 30: Meeker Massacre: Colorado: In the beginning of the Ute War, the Ute killed the US Indian Agent Nathan Meeker and 10 others. They also attacked a military unit, killing 13 and wounding 43. 11
[4] [5] [8] [9] Four Indian Army soldiers, including an officer were killed in the initial gun battle. [4] [5] [6] [10] The militants then divided themselves into two groups, entered the living quarters of the base and opened fire with AK-47s and grenades. They took into hostage at least two infants, two women and over a dozen soldiers.
The Indian army initially placed total casualties at [82] 554 Sikh militants and civilians dead, [16] and 83 killed (4 officers, 79 soldiers) and 236 wounded among government forces. Kuldip Nayar cites Rajiv Gandhi as allegedly admitting that nearly 700 soldiers were killed. [ 19 ]
The main thrust of the Indian Army during the 1971 war was directed towards the eastern theatre, with the western sector envisioned as a holding operation to prevent the Pakistan Army from achieving any success that would allow the President of Pakistan, Yahya Khan, any bargaining tool to trade against the captured territories in the east.
[7] [8] According to Indian Army, Talekar was the first casualty of the attack. [2] A captured militant revealed that they had played football with the head of Talekar. [9] Pakistan denied that its soldiers were involved in the incident. [10]
Near Dry Creek, the soldiers were ambushed by 60 Indians, but rescued by twenty additional cavalry went out to help them. Two soldiers were killed and they claimed to have killed one Indian. The builder of the bridge, an elderly civilian named Louis Guinard, disappeared. A boot containing part of his leg was found months later. [11] Sage Creek ...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Four Indian soldiers were killed and three others were wounded in an ambush by militants fighting against New Delhi’s rule in disputed Kashmir, officials said on Thursday ...
On 26 April, two militants and three Indian Army soldiers were killed in an attack on an Indian Army garrison in Chowkibal's Panzgam area, Kupwara district. [120] May. On 14 May, two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants were killed in Waripora village of Handwara, Kupwara district. [121]