Srinagar, August 10: When it came to making the supreme sacrifice, ‘Mansi’ did not wince even once and laid down her life in the line of duty while preventing an infiltration bid in Tangdhar sector of north Jammu and Kashmir. Mansi, a four year old Labrador, and her handler Bashir Ahmed War of the Territorial Army were gunned down by infiltrating terrorists from across the border in Tangdhar, about 150 km from here.
According to the reports, Mansi and War, a resident of Kupwara, were posted in the dense forests where terrorist from PoK made an infiltration bid on the intervening Saturday-Sunday night. A part of the Army’s tracker dog unit, Mansi sensed some movement and started pulling War towards an area where clouds were low.
As Mansi started barking at the intruders, she received an enemy bullet, something which was enough to provoke her handler who started firing relentlessly at the intruders besides calling for reinforcement. War wanted to avenge the death of his canine friend whose care he had been taking since she joined the Army’s tracker unit. Death could not part them as even War fell to the enemy bullets but not before reinforcements had arrived. AGENCIES