Two jawans killed as Pak violates peace
Three Hizbul militants were shot down in encounter
Two Armymen were killed in the latest ceasefire violation by the Pakistani troops along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Wednesday.
Army officials here said that Lance Naik L.N. Ranjit Singh and Rifleman Satish Bhagat were killed in the Pakistani firing in Furkiya area of Chowkibal. They belonged to the Army’s Jammu and Kashmir Rifles.
Defence spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia added that the Pakistani troops initiated firing at 2.20 pm “without any provocation”. “The ceasefire violation was retaliated to strongly and befittingly,” he said.
Meanwhile, about half a dozen persons including a press photographer were injured when the security forces on Wednesday fired teargas canisters and shotgun pellets to break a procession of mourners during the funeral of one of the three militants killed in a fire fight with troops earlier during the day.
Reinforcements from Jammu and Kashmir police and central paramilitary forces enforced a security lockdown in parts of Srinagar including the old town as tensions rose after the killing of three Hizb-ulMujahedin militants in central district of Budgam.
The mobile internet services were snapped and train services partially suspended “as a precautionary measure”. Irate crowds took to streets in a few areas of Srinagar and Budgam districts whereas large number of people turned up at the funeral of the slain militants in Srinagar and Budgam.
The gunfight between the gunmen and the security forces broke out in Radbugh village of Bunmakhama area of Magam on Tuesday evening and ended with the elimination of all the three holed up militants on Wednesday morning, the officials said.