According to the police, the incident occurred near the Bhadaura town at around 2.30 am.
With the chanting of "Bharat Mata ki Jai" and a sea of humanity in witness, Kerala on Friday gave a heroic farewell to Kochi native N Ramachandran, who was killed in the terror attack at Baisaran Valley, Pahalgam, in South Kashmir on Tuesday.
Six members of a wedding procession were killed on the spot when their car collided with a roadside tree at Bhujuli intersection of this Uttar Pradesh district. Two people were critically injured in the accident.
In a tragic incident, a Chhattisgarh Armed Forces (CAF) constable, Manoj Pujari, was killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast triggered by Maoist insurgents in the dense forests of Bijapur district.
The police have arrested Purendra Kaushik, a local BJP functionary, on charges of murder and attempt to murder. Kaushik had lost to Champai in last year's sarpanch election, a defeat that sources say had left him embittered.
A BSF spokesman said that at about 2.15 AM, alert troops observed suspicious movement of an intruder near the International border in RS Pura area.
Two groups of the Jat community openly clashed with each other with sharp-edged weapons and opened fire.
A joint team of army and police also recovered a huge cache of arms, ammunition and grenades from Nowshera Nard village near the Line of Control (LOC) in the Gurez area.
Accused held for murder of labourer while killer/s of Jafarabad woman is yet to be identified.
Additional Director General of Police J&K, Vijay Kumar said that the encounter took place in Thajiwara area of Bijbehara.
