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| Grenade claims life of CRPF ASI in Pulwama, seven others injured | | Tutmar Gali encounter toll reaches 7 | |
Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 3: An Assistant Sub Inspector of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was killed while as seven others persons including three civilians were injured in a grenade attack at Pohoo in the South Kashmir's Pulwama district.
Reports said that militants lobbed a grenade towards a vehicle of CRPF at Rohmoo bridge in the evening today. The grenade landed near the vehicle leading to two injuries to eight persons including three CRPF personnel, two policemen and three civilians. As soon as the blast was hear people ran towards safer places and there was complete chaos in the entire area.
As part of the ongoing electoral process in the state elections in the Pulwama district are scheduled to be held on December 9. Following today's blast security has been beefed up in the entire district in order to ensure that polling passes off peacefully without any untoward incident.
Reports said that Jammu & Kashmir Police, Special Operations Group and CRPF cordoned off the area immediately after the grenade blast. The cordon was going on when last reports came in, however, no arrests were made. A police spokesman said that a CRPF man died while seven others including two CRPF personnel, two policemen and three civilians were injured in a grenade explosion at Pohoo, Pulwama.
"Unknown militants hurled a grenade at Pohoo, Pulwama resulting in injuries to three CRPF personnel, two policemen and three civilians. All the injured were shifted to the hospital where ASI Shamsher Singh of 183 B succumbed to his injuries," said the police spokesman.
The spokesman said that the injured civilians were identified as Manzoor Ahmad Mir, Zahoor Ahmad Mir and Gulzar Ahmad Wagay residents of Pohoo, Pulwama. All the injured are stable and out of danger. Police has registered a case in this regard and investigation has been started.
Militants had carried out a grenade attack in the LalChowk area on Saturday last. Seven persons were injured in this incident.
In the meantime with the killing of three militants and a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) the death toll in the encounter between militants and army at TutmarGali in Kupwara district. The encounter between the army and the group of infiltrating militants which commenced on night of 1st December entered its third day today.
A defence spokesman said that after the elimination of three militants on the first night itself, the operations were continued relentlessly in the extreme harsh conditions and high altitude terrain of the Shamshabari Ridge resulting in the elimination of three more militants on the second day.
"During the operation one Junior Commissioned Officer, Ajay Vardhan made the supreme sacrifice. The valiant martyr was the first to detect the movement of the militants and took immediate action by leading small team and initiating the initial contact with the militants. While closing in the JCO and his team came under intense fire from the militants but with utter disregard to his own safety the JCO charged up and eliminated the militants," said the defence spokesman.
The defence spokesman said that in the process the JCO came under a hail of bullets and was grievously wounded and succumbed to his injuries during evacuation. Six AK rifles, one pistol and a large quantity of warlike stores were recovered from the slain militants. |
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