It is the fourth terror incident reported in Kashmir within the last 36hours . The military personnel were on duty when the incident to Mendhar sector of Poonch late on a Sunday night.
Two army officials were hurt by a grenade strike on Monday in the Budgam area of Jammu & Kashmir. Sadly, the incident happened on India’s 76th Independence Day in the Budgam district’s Gopalpora area of Central Kashmir. One member of the minority group was hurt when suspected terrorists threw grenades at Gopalpora, according to a senior police official. The victim was taken by ambulance to SMHS in Srinagar and identified as Karan Singh, age 20, a native of Gopalpur and the son of Anil Kumar.Â
According to reports, his status is steady.In the Poonch area of Jammu and Kashmir, an unintentional grenade explosion near the Line of Control claimed the lives of an Army captain and a subordinate commissioned officer, according to officials. An Army PRO stated that the Army men were on duty when the event occurred late on Sunday night in Poonch’s Mendhar area. “Soldiers were hurt by the grenade blast, and they were flown by helicopter to Command Hospital Udhampur right away. In Kashmir on Monday, two grenade assaults injured a civilian and a policeman.
According to a police officer, terrorists launched a grenade at the Gopalpora neighbourhood of Chadoora in the Budgam district of central Kashmir in the evening. The grenade went off with a loud explosion, injuring a person with splinters. Police have named the injured man as Karan Kumar Singh, and he was brought to the SMHS hospital in Srinagar. According to reports, his status is steady.
Capt. Anand and Nb Sub Bhagwan Singh passed away from their injuries while receiving treatment, according to an Army statement.Two police officers received minor injuries in the blast that was directed at the Indian police station. Shah Din Padyar and Mohammad Farooq, two inhabitants of the Gool region of the district, were identified as the two people apprehended by senior superintendent of police for Ramban Mohita Sharma.
According to a senior officer familiar with the investigation, the Ramban district grenade attack on August 2 resulted in the arrest of two terrorists by the Jammu and Kashmir police. The officer added that the case had exposed a plot to resurrect terrorism in the area. Two police officers received minor injuries in the blast that was directed at the Indian police station.According to the statement, Nb Sub Bhagwan Singh is from Pokhar Bhitta in Ambedkar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, while Capt Anand is from Champa Nagar in Bhagalpur, Bihar.
Police and other security organisations have closed off the entire area while they hunt for the attackers. A grenade was thrown by terrorists in the direction of the heavily guarded Police Control Room Kashmir in the Batamaloo neighbourhood of uptown Srinagar about 30 minutes after the explosion.
A police officer was hurt in the explosion and has since been hospitalised.
In order to find the militants responsible for the attacks, police and CRPF forces
surrounded the region and conducted search operations. When news last began to arrive, the operation was still in progress. The simultaneous grenade strikes occurred as security was tightened in preparation for Independence Day events.In the previous 36 hours, Kashmir has had four reported acts of terrorism.
Terrorists had already carried out two grenade assaults in Srinagar and Kulgam, and yesterday there was a brief encounter in the Srinagar Nowhatta neighbourhood. “A big attack was averted and the grenade burst near to the jawan barracks because the sentry was attentive because the Ramban district had previously been placed on high alert in the lead-up to Independence Day.
Two police officers — Follower Lal Singh and SPO Shakeel Ahmed — suffered minor splinter wounds as a result of this incident. The terrorists had left the area, taking advantage of the night, Sharma added.The J&K police, army, and CRPF, together with other security forces, immediately started a large combined operation in Ind and surrounding Gool districts in an effort to capture the attack’s terrorist perpetrators. After the person who was funding these two terrorists was identified, the SSP stated that “further arrests are expected in the case.” At least 11 police officers and two members of the village defence committee (VDC) were killed in an attack on the same police station by terrorists some 19 years prior.
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