Five CRPF personnel, including two officers, who were deployed on picket duty were killed in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Wednesday afternoon when terrorists attacked them while they were checking vehicles. IG CRPF Ravideep Sahi told TOI that this was the first attack on the CRPF after the February 14 suicide bombing in Pulwama in which the paramilitary force has suffered huge casualties. A Pakistani terrorist was also killed as CRPF and police retaliated. Five persons, including the SHO of Anantnag Sadar police station, three CRPF jawans and a woman pedestrian, were injured in the attack.
Five CRPF personnel, including two officers, who were deployed on picket duty were killed in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Wednesday afternoon when terrorists attacked them while they were checking vehicles. IG CRPF Ravideep Sahi told TOI that this was the first attack on the CRPF after the February 14 suicide bombing in Pulwama in which the paramilitary force has suffered huge casualties. A Pakistani terrorist was also killed as CRPF and police retaliated. Five persons, including the SHO of Anantnag Sadar police station, three CRPF jawans and a woman pedestrian, were injured in the attack.