Six CRPF men, school girl injured in militant attack in Srinagar outskirts

‘Jawans were on their way to Srinagar for election duty’

5 Dariya News

Srinagar 03-Apr-2017

Six CRPF men and a school girl were injured after an attack by unidentified militants in Srinagar outskirts at Singhpora, Panthachowk Monday afternoon when they were moving from Jammu to Srinagar for election duty.CRPF spokesman Rajesh Yadav told KNS that six CRPF personnel were injured in the militant attack at Singhpora, Panthchowk.“They have been shifted to Army Hospital in Badamibagh cantonment. The CRPF jawans of the 97 and157 Battalions were on their way to Srinagar for election duty for Lok Sabha by polls,” he said.This is the third such attack on security forces in the last three days. On Saturday three army men were injured in Bemina when militants attacked them. On Sunday evening, militants killed a policemen and injured 11 other forces personnel by lobbing a grenade in Nowhatta here when they were withdrawing from their day’s deployment.Security forces say that the militants are trying to intensify the attacks to disturb the by-polls for two parliamentary seats in Srinagar and Anantnag. (KNS)