Two CRPF jawans were killed and five others were injured in a militant attack in Anantang in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday.

Militants carried out the attack on a busy road in Anantnag district of South Kashmir. The injured include an inspector of Jammu and Kashmir Police, officials said.

They said at least two militants attacked a patrol party of the CRPF on the busy KP Road in Anantnag with automatic rifles followed by hurling of grenades.

Two CRPF personnel died and five others injured, they said, adding the firing is still going on.

One terrorist was also killed in the gunfight.

Station House Officer of Anantnag Police Station, Arshad Ahmed, was injured in the attack and has been shifted to Srinagar for treatment, they said. </s> Two paramilitary CRPF men, who were injured in a militant attack in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, succumbed to injuries on Wednesday.

An official said that two CRPF men succumbed to injuries at the district hospital Anantnag while one CRPF man is under treatment there.

Earlier, a CRPF man was brought dead to the hospital.

Station House Officer of Police Anantnag, who sustained bullet wound in chest, has been taken to Srinagar for specialised treatment. A girl was also injured and she is being treated at district hospital Anantnag

Police wrote on Twitter that there was an exchange of fire between forces and militants in Anantnag.

“Area is under cordon,” police said. </s> A militant who attacked a forces party in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Wednesday has been killed, a CRPF official said.

Three CRPF men were killed in the militant attack while a militant was also killed in retaliatory action, a CRPF official told Rising Kashmir.

Reports said another CRPF man and a girl, who were also injured in the attack, are under treatment at district hospital Anatnag while Station House Officer of Police Anantnag, who sustained bullet wound in chest, has been referred to Srinagar for specialised treatment.

Meanwhile, GNS news agency reported that Al-Umar militant outfit claimed the attack. </s> Violence erupts in Kashmir after security forces kill militants, say police

People shout slogans as they gather around the body of Shabir Ahmad, a suspected militant who was killed in a gunbattle with Indian security forces, during his funeral at Aghanzipora village, in South Kashmir's Pulwama district, March 16, 2018. — ReuterSRINAGAR, April 1 — At least 12 people, including eight suspected militants, were killed in gun battles with Indian security forces in southern Kashmir, police officials said, in one of the most violent days in the restive region this year.

Two Indian soldiers and two civilians were also killed, and more than 30 people were injured when hundreds of protesters pelted stones at the security forces to disrupt their anti-militant operations, police said.

Troops used tear gas and pellet guns to disperse the crowd, and later opened fire. Most of the injured sustained pellet wounds but six had gunshot wounds, said S.P. Vaid, the director general of the state police.

Local residents put the number of injured at over 50.

Muslim separatists have been waging a violent campaign against Indian rule since the late 1980s in Indian-held Kashmir.

Vaid said the army received information on Saturday night about militants hiding in an area near Dragad village in Shopian district, about 50 km (30 miles) south of Kashmir’s capital of Srinagar.

“In Dragad, 7 bodies of militants were recovered including top commanders. They were killed in a gun battle,” Vaid said, adding that the owner of the house in which the militants were trapped was also killed.

Another militant was killed in Dialgam village in Anantnag district, about 60 km (37 miles) south of Srinagar, while one was caught alive, he said.

Two Indian soldiers and one civilian were killed in another gun battle in Kachdoora village, which is also in Shopian district, where a battle with a separate group of 4-5 militants was ongoing, Vaid said. Train services to south Kashmir have been suspended as a precautionary measure, a railways official said, and internet services in five districts have also been blocked.

In south Kashmir’s Pulwama district the local administration has imposed restrictions on the movement of people and vehicles to prevent any violence. — Reuters </s> A CRPF soldier was killed and five others were seriously injured in a major suicide attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district on Wednesday. At least two militants also died in the fidayeen attack.

Sources told International Business Times, India, that a group of militants attacked a police patrolling party at the busy KP Road and there could be more casualties.

The Station House Officer of the Anantnag police station was also injured. This is the major terror attack after the suicide bombing on a bus ferrying CRPF soldiers in Pulwama district on February 14. </s> Security personnel near the site of fidayeen attack in Anantnag on Wednesday. (PTI)

SRINAGAR: Five Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans were killed and three other security personnel including a local police officer were injured in a sneak attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s southern Anantnag district on Wednesday evening.

A militant was also killed in the security forces’ retaliatory fire whereas a woman resident received a bullet injury in her foot in the shooting incident, the officials said.

“From the materials recovered, it is found that the militant was a foreigner,” said a statement issued by the J&K police here.

The officials said that two motorcycle-borne militants targeted a joint party of the J&K police and the CRPF’s 116th Battalion at a makeshift security barrier laid along the Khanabal-Pahalgam Road, about 60 kilometres south of summer capital Srinagar, at 4.55 pm. The assailants, they said, also hurled a hand grenade at the security forces’ naka party.

In the militant firing and ensuing brief encounter, five CRPF personnel received grievous injuries. They were rushed to Anantnag’s district hospital where three of them were declared dead on arrival. Two others succumbed to their injuries later. Three other injured CRPF jawans have been admitted to Srinagar’s 92-Army Base Hospital, a report said.

The police statement said that the CRPF jawans laid down their lives “while repulsing a terrorist attack”. The authorities said that the security in the area was beefed up further recently in view of the upcoming Amarnath yatra.

The slain jawans have been identified as Assistant Sub-Inspector Neeru Sharma and Ramesh Kumar and Constables Santinder Kumar, M. K. Kushwa and Mahesh Kumar.

The officials said that the Station House Officer of Anantnag’s Saddar Police Station Arshad Ahmed Khan who received a bullet injury in his chest has been shifted to Srinagar for specialized treatment from Anantnag’s district hospital whereas local resident Ms. Sanober who was also injured is being treated locally. The hospital sources said that she sustained bullet injury in her foot and is out of danger.

The police said that an AK series rifle in the use of the militant who was killed in the security forces’ retaliatory fire has been recovered from the scene of the occurrence.

A CRPF spokesman here said that the attack took place on the men of the force’s 116th Battalion deployed near Oxford School along the Khanabal-Pahalgam road for law and order duties.

According to a local news agency GNS, Al-Umar Mujahideen outfit has claimed responsibility for carrying out the attack.

Soon after the incident, clashes broke out between irate crowds of youth and the security forces in the area, the witnesses said. The security forces fired teargas canisters to quell the protesters and stone-pelting mobs, the witnesses added. The mobile internet services in the district have been withdrawn amid rising tensions.

Wednesday’s attack comes weeks after a Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) suicide bomber had targeted a CRPF convoy in neighbouring Pulwama district. In the February 14 attack, as many as 42 CRPF jawans were killed and several others injured.

The authorities here said that the security forces have in their tough campaign against the separatist militants killed as many as 115 of them including eight commanders, so far, this year. Out of these, 38 belonged to JeM and others were associated with Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, ISIS or Daesh, Ansar Ghazwatul Hind (Al-Qaeda’s India cell) and Al-Badr Mujahideen.

As many as 68 security personnel also laid down their lives while fighting militants or in their attacks whereas seventeen civilians lost their lives in violence. </s> Five Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and a militant were killed in an attack in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Wednesday.

Reports said that the militants opened fire upon a joint naka party of the state police and the CRPF near Oxford School at Khanabal-Pahalgam road today around 04:55 pm.

The fire was retaliated by the joint team, triggering a shootout, they said.

Medical Superintendent, District Hospital Anantnag, said five CRPF personnel were brought to the facility. “Three among them succumbed,” he was quoted as having said by news agency GNS.

Station House Officer Sadder police station Arshad Khan who had sustained a bullet injury in his chest was also shifted to Anantnag district hospital where from he was referred to Srinagar in critical condition.

Medical Superintendent said that a girl was also brought to the facility with a bullet injury in her foot.

A CRPF spokesman confirmed the attack. “Troops of B/116 deployed for law and order duties was fired upon by suspected vehicle borne militants,” said the spokesman.

He confirmed the deaths of three CRPF personnel and injuries to three others and the killing of a militant.

Reports said that the bodies of two CRPF personnel were shifted to District Police Lines Anantnag.

Meanwhile, Al Umar militant outfit has claimed the attack, reported news agency GNS.

The attack comes months after 40 CRPF personnel were killed in a suicide blast in Pulwama, which had brought India and Pakistan close to a war. </s> Flames and smoke billow from residential houses after they caught fire during a gun battle between Indian army soldiers and suspected militants at Kachdoora village in south Kashmir's Shopian district, April 1, 2018. Photo by Reuters/Danish Ismail

Indian security forces killed at least three civilians and wounded about 70 in restive Kashmir on Sunday when hundreds of people tried to prevent them from carrying out operations against suspected militants, police and residents said.

At least 17 other people, including 13 suspected militants, were killed in gunbattles during the day in southern Kashmir, police officials said, the worst violence in the region this year.

When hundreds of people came out on the streets of Kachdoora village in Shopian district to try to halt a gunbattle between militants and security forces, troops used tear gas and pellet guns to disperse the crowd. They later opened fire.

Local residents said that after the protests, the security forces called off the operation. Police said five militants and three soldiers were killed in the fighting.

Muslim separatists have been waging a violent campaign against Indian rule since the late 1980s in Indian-held Kashmir.

Fighting also broke out in two other villages in the region on Sunday.

S.P. Vaid, the state director general of police, said the army received information on Saturday night about militants hiding in an area near Dragad village, about 50 km (30 miles) south of Kashmir’s capital of Srinagar and also in Shopian district.

“In Dragad, 7 bodies of militants were recovered including top commanders. They were killed in a gunbattle,” Vaid said, adding that the owner of the house in which the militants were trapped was also killed.

Another militant was killed in Dialgam village in Anantnag district, about 60 km (37 miles) south of Srinagar, while one was caught alive, he said.

Authorities have directed schools and colleges in Kashmir to remain closed on Monday to prevent any recurrence of violence, and restrictions have been imposed in several areas.

Train services to south Kashmir have been suspended as a precautionary measure, a railways official said, and internet services in five districts have also been blocked.

In south Kashmir’s Pulwama district the local administration has imposed restrictions on the movement of people and vehicles to prevent any violence. </s> SRINAGAR: While a police statement said that three militants were killed in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district, it was confirmed later that one of the victims was a civilian.

The police said in a statement on Thursday that three militants were killed in the gunfight that took place earlier in the day in Handew village.

While two victims were identified as Yawar Mushtaq and Shakeel Ahmed, both Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militants from Shopian, the third was identified as a civilian, Ishtiyaq Ahmed Bhat.

A soldier, Rohit Kumar Yadav who was injured in the gunfight, succumbed to his wounds on Thursday night in the Army's 92 base hospital in Srinagar, the police said.

In Thursday's two gunfights in Pulwama and Shopian districts killed a total of five militants, two civilians and two soldiers.

Three Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militants, including a top commander identified as a Pakistan national Khalid Bhai, a civilian and a soldier were killed in a gunfight in Dalipora village of Pulwama.

Police said Khalid Bhai had masterminded the 2017 attack on the Lethpora CRPF camp in Pulwama district in which five troopers were killed.

In a third shootout between the security forces and militants in Kupwara's Kandi forests on Thursday, there were no reports of any casualty.
Militants kill five Indian paramilitary police in Anantnag district. Three paramilitaries, a local policeman and a woman bystander are wounded, and one militant is killed.