Jammu Tawi| May 05:Three CRPF personnel were killed and two others injured when militants opened fire on them at a checkpoint in Kupwara on Monday, a day after five security personnel lost their lives during an encounter in the district.
Today, militants pulled an attack on CRPF patrol at around 5.38 pm in the evening. Three CRPF Jawans who were Killed In Action (KIA) during a terror attack in Kupwara are: Constable, Ashwani Kumar Yadav from UP, Constable Chandra Sekar.C from Tamil Nadu and Constable, Santosh Kumar Mishra from Bihar.
The Resistance Front has claimed responsibility for it by calling a news agency in Kashmir.
A teenaged civilian was also killed in the exchange of fire between the security forces and the ultras on Monday, officials said. The militants opened fire on a naka party of the Central Reserve Police Force at Wangam-Qaziabad in Kralgund area of the district, they said. They said three CRPF jawans were killed on the spot.
A brief shootout ensued as the CRPF personnel opened retaliatory firing, the officials said.
A 14-year-old civilian boy, identified as Mohammad Hazim Bhat, was also found dead at the scene of the incident.
The area has been cordoned off and additional forces rushed there to track down the assailants, the officials said.
Meanwhile a CISF jawan has been seriously injured in another attack when terrorists lobbed a grenade at a power grid station in Vagura, Naugam of District Budgam in Kashmir. The terrorists managed to escape. The injured CISF jawan guarding the grid was immediately rushed to the hospital where he is undergoing treatment. The security forces have cordoned off the Wagura area of Naugam and conducted a search operation there. At present, no encounter has been reported.
These attacks comes less than 48 hours after a colonel, a major and three other security forces personnel were killed in an encounter with terrorists in north Kashmir's Handwara, in the biggest loss to the Army which lost officers of such seniority in an anti-terror operation after a gap of five years.
The encounter in Handwara in Kupwara district claimed the lives of Colonel Ashutosh Sharma, Major Anuj Sood, Naik Rajesh and Lance Naik Dinesh, all from the Brigade of the Guards regiment, and at present part of the 21 Rashtriya Rifles and deployed to counter terrorism in the hinterland.
