STATE TIMES NEWS
Srinagar: Terrorist on Tuesday carried out a series of attacks on security forces in South Kashmir, injuring 13 jawans in a span of four hours. The terrorists also looted four service rifles of the security personnel.
A grenade was hurled on a CRPF camp at Ladiyar in Tral area of Pulwama district. Ten paramilitary jawans were injured in the attack, a police official said.
The camp housed troops of the force’s 180th battalion at Ladiyar village of Tral, 35 kms from here, a police official said. A senior CRPF official in Delhi said the grenade exploded in the area where the troops had gathered for a meal, causing splinter injures to 10 of them. They were rushed to the 92 base hospital, he said.
The area around the camp was cordoned off to nab the unidentified militants, the police official said. This is the second grenade attack in Tral in two days and third such incident in the valley since Sunday. Two CRPF troopers were injured in a grenade attack by militants on their camp in Tral town on Monday. A sub- inspector of the force and three policemen were injured in a grenade attack on a security picket at Saraf Kadal in downtown Srinagar on Sunday.
In the second attack, the militants opened firing on the security personnel guarding the residence of a retired high court judge at Anchidora in Anantnag district, resulting in injuries to two cops, the official said.
The terrorists opened fire on the police post guarding the residence of Justice (retd) Muzaffar Hussain Attar at Anchidora in Anantnag at around 8.30 pm, official sources said.
The sources said two cops were injured in the firing. The terrorists managed to take away four service rifles of the policemen before escaping. The third attack took place on a CRPF camp at Padgampora in Pulwama, but no one was hurt in it as the grenade hurled by the militants exploded mid-air. The terrorists also threw a grenade on Pulwama police station, resulting in minor injuries to a cop. No militant outfit has so far claimed responsibility for the grenade attacks.
“We have told all our units deployed in Jammu and Kashmir to remain extra vigilant against such attacks and continue to launch operations against militants,” the CRPF official said.
ATM with over Rs 5 lakh stolen in Pampore
Srinagar: Unidentified persons on Tuesday decamped with an ATM of a private bank, containing cash worth over Rs 5.40 lakh, in the Pulwama district of south Kashmir, police said. A group of thieves struck Kadalbal area of Pampore and fled with an ATM of the HDFC bank carrying over Rs 5 lakh, a police official said.
