SRINAGAR: Three Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were injured on Wednesday afternoon after motorcycle-borne terrorists opened fire on a security checkpost at Akhran near Mir Bazar in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district, officials confirmed.
“Three Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were injured after unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants opened fire on security personnel deployed at a naka in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir this afternoon,” the CRPF said in an official statement. “The incident took place at around 2.15 pm when the assailants fired at the CRPF personnel before fleeing the spot. The injured personnel were shifted to a hospital in Anantnag district for treatment,” the statement added.
The injured personnel have been identified as Rakesh Dass, Santosh Chandru, and Somveer Singh. Officials reported that Dass sustained an injury to his left leg, Chandru suffered bullet wounds to his abdomen and spine, while Singh was wounded in his left arm. All three injured troopers are currently out of danger and undergoing medical care.
Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha was visiting the Kulgam district at the time of the incident to attend the three-day Veshow Festival as chief guest at the Government Degree College, though he was not in the vicinity of the attack site.
Ground visuals showed emergency medical staff carrying the wounded personnel on stretchers into the Anantnag hospital. Shortly after the firing, security forces reinforced the area with heavy barricading and deployed armored vehicles. Announcements were made over loudspeakers advising local residents to remain indoors as sirens sounded across the sector. Joint security forces have launched a massive cordon-and-search operation to track down the fleeing attackers.
The attack follows a recent incident in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district last month, where four CRPF officers were injured in an IED blast while defusing residual explosives at the Alarmedgu camp.
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