2016 Uri attack
| 2016 Uri attack | |||||
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| Part of Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
| Insurgents | India | ||||
| Units involved | |||||
| Jaish-e-Muhammad | Indian Army 4 Para (special forces) | ||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||
| 4 killed | 19 killed, 19-30 injured | ||||
The 2016 Uri attack was carried out on 18 September 2016 by four militants from Jaish-e-Mohammed against an Indian Army brigade headquarters near the town of Uri in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir. 19 Indian soldiers were killed in the attack, and 19–30 others were injured. It was reported by the BBC as having been "the deadliest attack on security forces in Kashmir in two decades".
Jaish-e-Mohammed, a Pakistan-based jihadist organization (designated as a terrorist organization by the India, Australia, the US, and UK among others, and proscribed by Pakistan from 2002 and further actions against its allied organizations in 2019), was involved in the planning and execution of the attack. At the time it was carried out, the Kashmir Valley was experiencing high levels of violent unrest.