4-yr-old, CRPF jawan killed in Anantnag fight
Srinagar: A 4-year-old boy and a Central Reserve Police Force jawan were killed and another was injured in a sneak militant attack on a foot patrol of the security force in Bijbehara area of southern Anantnag district on Friday. The witnesses and police officials said that gunmen targeted the men of the CRPF’s 90th Battalion near Padshahi Bagh in the heart of the highway town of Bijbehara, 45-km south of here. A police statement said that the CRPF party was attacked at 12. 15 pm.
A 4-year-old boy and a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan were killed and another was injured in a sneak militant attack on a foot patrol of the security force in Bijbehara area of southern Anantnag district on Friday.
The witnesses and police officials said that gunmen targeted the men of the CRPF’s 90th Battalion near Padshahi Bagh in the heart of the highway town of Bijbehara, 45-km south of here. A statement issued by the police here said that the CRPF party was attacked at 12.15 pm
The slain CRPF jawan has been identified as Shymal Kumar and the minor civilian passerby as Nehan Bhat, a resident of Machoo village of neighbouring Kulgam district. “Both of them were critically injured in the terror attack and succumbed in a nearby hospital,” a police official said. He added that the other CRPF jawan injured in the attack is being treated at the hospital.
The doctors, however, said that the minor boy was brought dead to Bijbehara’s Sub-district hospital and that they tried to revive the CRPF jawan but he too died soon thereafter.
Earlier during the day,
three militants were gunned down by the security forces during an encounter in Chewa Ullar village of Tral area in neighbouring Pulwama district.
The fighting broke out after the J&K Police’s counterinsurgency Special Operations Group (SOG) along with the Army’s 42 Rashtriya Rifles and CRPF’s 180th Battalion laid siege to the village to flush out militants.
“During the search operation, as the presence of terrorists got ascertained, they were given the opportunity to surrender. However, they fired indiscriminately upon the joint search party, which was retaliated leading to an encounter,” a statement issued by the police here said. It claimed that two AK rifles with six magazines and five live rounds, one pistol with one magazine and four and other “incriminating materials” were recovered from the site of the encounter.