Two soldiers suffered gunshot wounds during the operation that was launched at the crack of dawn. Zoom undertook the mission even as the Lashkar duo was targeting the soldiers with automatic weapons and grenades in a desperate attempt to break the cordon and give the counterterror squad the slip.
However, he was successful in destabilising the terrorists, who were then effectively neutralised by the precision fire of the troops,” the army said on October 10. Zoom was fired upon by the terrorists in hiding, thereby injuring him seriously. “Zoom approached the target stealthily and pounced upon the terrorists. It said the brave canine, who joined an army dog unit barely eight months ago, was sent into the ‘target house,’ where the hardcore terrorists were hiding, to force them to abandon their cover and retrieve their weapons. The army highlighted Zoom’s role in the October 10 operation in a statement. The command is the nerve centre of counter-terror operations in J&K. A real hero in service to the #Nation,” the Udhampur-based Northern Command wrote on Twitter. Injured in line of duty in operation at Tangpawa #Ananatnag, he finally breathed the last on 13 October 2022. “#Arm圜drNC (Army Commander, Northern Command) condoles the death of Assault Dog ‘Zoom’. Zoom joins a growing list of the army’s four-legged warriors who have made the ultimate sacrifice fighting alongside infantry soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir and India’s North-east where the army carries out hundreds of anti-terror operations every day. In the last 72 hours, the army variously described Zoom as “brave fighter,” “valiant” and “real hero” for his uncommon courage and heroism during the intense firefight that ended with the killing of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists who were infamous for targeting civilians and had been on the army’s radar for several months. The young Belgian Malinois helped soldiers kill two wanted terrorists - Asif Ah Rishi and Wakeel Ah Bhat - in an operation, codenamed Tangpawa, near Anantnag before the front-line canine hero was shot at twice, and some of the army’s best veterinary surgeons at the Srinagar-based 54 Advance Field Veterinary Hospital tried their best to save him, officers familiar with the matter said.
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