SRINAGAR: Three personnel belonging to the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) sustained bullet injuries after terrorists opened indiscriminate fire from close range at a static security checkpoint in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Wednesday afternoon.
The brazen ambush occurred around 2:15 p.m. at a joint security naka point manned by troops of the 46 Battalion CRPF. Preliminary forensic and operational investigations indicate that the assailants, suspected to be motorcycle-borne, approached the checkpoint before discharging automatic weapons and fleeing into adjacent densely populated residential lanes.
The injured paramilitary personnel were identified as Head Constable Somveer Singh (a resident of Madhya Pradesh), Constable Rakesh Dass (from Assam), and Constable Santosh Chandru (from West Bengal). Following the firing, quick reaction teams (QRTs) swiftly evacuated the wounded jawans to a sub-district healthcare facility in neighbouring Anantnag before critically injured Head Constable Singh was airlifted via military helicopter to the Army’s 92 Base Hospital in Badami Bagh Cantonment, Srinagar, for emergency trauma care.
Immediately following the attack, joint contingents comprising the Indian Army, CRPF, and Jammu and Kashmir Police cordoned off the entire sector, launching an intensive cordon-and-search operation (CASO). Electronic surveillance footage, traffic checkpoint recordings, and drone sweeps were deployed across key transit choke points connecting Kulgam with Shopian and Anantnag districts to track down the fleeing assailants.
The strike occurred on a day when Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha was visiting Kulgam district to inaugurate the annual Veshow Literary and Cultural Festival. Sinha, who later visited the wounded jawan at the military hospital in Srinagar, condemned the assault in the strongest terms, reiterating that counter-terror forces have been given total operational freedom to pursue and eliminate the terror module responsible.
Published by True Roots Media