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CRPF man killed in highway terror attack

The incident took place in the afternoon when Charlie 97 (C/97) election company of the CRPF was on its way to Srinagar from Jammu for poll duties.

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For the third time in three days, terror revisited the Kashmir valley on Monday when terrorists attacked Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, killing one soldier and injuring six others, apart from a 10-year-old girl, near Sempora-Pantha Chowk on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway.

The incident took place in the afternoon when Charlie 97 (C/97) election company of the CRPF was on its way to Srinagar from Jammu for poll duties. Militants surfaced near Sempora in the Kashmir valley and fired indiscriminately on a civil bus carrying the CRPF men. Of the six soldiers who were wounded in the process, one later succumbed to his injuries while in hospital.

“The militants targeted the vehicles of C/97 election company. Six of our jawans were injured. One of them later embraced martyrdom.  Two others are critical and have been put on ventilator support. A civilian girl was also injured,” Rajesh Yadav, the CRPF spokesman for Kashmir, told DNA.

The slain soldier has been identified as Head Constable Basappa. The injured soldiers are constables Bhoor Singh Meena, Bharat Bharti, Rambabu and Dwarka PD, and Head Constable Devidas Kawle.

The CRPF exercised maximum restraint during the incident to avoid civilian casualties and other collateral damage. “There is a lot of civil transport and civilian movement and there is no point in firing when you do not know where to fire,” Yadav said.

More than 250 companies of paramilitary forces are being deployed for poll-related duties in the Srinagar and Anantnag constituencies, where bypolls will be held on April 9 and April 12 respectively.

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