Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 25
Two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed and two others sustained injuries today after car-borne militants fired at security forces in the Lawaypora area on the outskirts of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, the police said.
In a statement, the Jamp;K Police said, "Preliminary investigation has revealed that the terrorists fired indiscriminately on a CRPF vehicle at Lawaypora on the national highway, in which four CRPF personnel received bullet injuries."
The injured security personnel were rushed to a nearby private hospital, where a sub-inspector was declared dead on arrival.
The statement said later the remaining injured personnel were taken to a military hospital here, where a constable succumbed to his injuries.
The deceased have been identified as Sub-Inspector Manga Ram Dev Barman of Tripura and Constable Ashok Kumar of Himachal Pradesh. The injured are Constables Nazim Ali and Jaganath Ray.
The area, which has witnessed several attacks on security forces and encounters with militants in recent years, had been cordoned off, police officials said.
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