PATHANKOT, India - Four more Indian soldiers -
including a top officer - have died of injuries after an attack on an
Indian air force base, taking the total death toll to 11, officials said
on Sunday.
Seven soldiers in all - including a champion shooter and four attackers - were killed at the Pathankot Air Base, after heavily armed gunmen infiltrated the key station early Saturday.
An Indian army official - who declined to be named - told AFP one of the dead was a lieutenant colonel in the elite commando unit National Security Guard.
The official said the officer and two other soldiers were injured on Sunday when a bomb they were trying to defuse exploded during a search of the site.
Air force spokeswoman Rochelle D'Silva said three of the 12 soldiers injured in the battle died in a hospital on Sunday. "Nine are being treated in hospital and are stable," she said.
One of those killed - Subedar Fateh Singh - was a gold medallist at the 1995 Commonwealth Shooting Championships in New Delhi, she said. Singh was killed at the start of the gunfight, which lasted nearly 14 hours.
Seven soldiers in all - including a champion shooter and four attackers - were killed at the Pathankot Air Base, after heavily armed gunmen infiltrated the key station early Saturday.
An Indian army official - who declined to be named - told AFP one of the dead was a lieutenant colonel in the elite commando unit National Security Guard.
The official said the officer and two other soldiers were injured on Sunday when a bomb they were trying to defuse exploded during a search of the site.
Air force spokeswoman Rochelle D'Silva said three of the 12 soldiers injured in the battle died in a hospital on Sunday. "Nine are being treated in hospital and are stable," she said.
One of those killed - Subedar Fateh Singh - was a gold medallist at the 1995 Commonwealth Shooting Championships in New Delhi, she said. Singh was killed at the start of the gunfight, which lasted nearly 14 hours.
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