CRPF officer killed in encounter with militants in JK
The Udhampur district police confirmed that an Inspector of CRPF was killed in the encounter at Chill in Dudu.
A CRPF jawan was killed on Sunday evening when terrorists lobbed grenades at a camp of the force in Midoora area of Tral in South Kashmir.
Reports identified the jawan as Vijay Kumar. He had sustained serious injuries in the attack and later died at the military hospital in Srinagar.
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Terrorists had attacked the camp of 180 battalion of CRPF with under barrel grenades.
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Security forces have cordoned off the area and launched a search for the terrorists.
READ | J-K: 3 soldiers, 5 terrorists, 7 civilians killed in two encounters
Earlier in the day, three Army soldiers, seven civilians, and five terrorists (two of them Pakistanis) were killed in two separate encounters in Jammu and Kashmir.
The civilians were killed when a live shell exploded at an encounter spot in Laroo area of Kulgam in South Kashmir where they had gone despite police warnings following the killing of three terrorists by security forces. Among the seven civilians killed at Laroo was a 10-year-old boy. Two soldiers of the Army were injured in the encounter.
In a separate encounter near the Line of Control (LoC) at Sunderbani in the Rajouri district of Jammu, three soldiers were martyred and two heavily armed Pakistani terrorists were killed.
Army spokesman Lt Colonel Devender Anand said one soldier who was critically injured during the encounter with the infiltrators had been airlifted to the military command hospital in Udhampur for treatment.
The three martyred soldiers have been identified as Havaldar Kaushal Kumar of Nowshera, Lance Naik Ranjeet Singh of Doda, and Rifleman Rajat Kumar Basan of Pallanwala. The injured soldier, Rifleman Rakesh Kumar, belongs to Samba near Jammu.
They were from the 8 JAK LI.
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