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Srinagar: An Army officer and two soldiers were killed in a pre-dawn militant ‘fidayeen’ attack at an artillery base of the Army in Panzgam area of Jammu and Kashmir’s frontier Kupwara district on Thursday.
Two militants also died in the troops’ retaliatory fire, the Army and police officials said in Srinagar.
Soon after the attack, protests by locals were held in nearby villages of Panzgam and Kralapora, reports received here said.
The officials said that a slogan chanting mob hurled stones at the Army and other security personnel just outside the Panzgam village, about a few kilometres from the Army base.
The troops opened fire on the mob which, the Army said, had tried to disturb movement of its men.
One person identified as Muhammad Yusuf Bhatt, 45, a resident of Panzgam, was killed and ten others were wounded, the reports said.
Bhatt, the reports added, was hit by a bullet in the neck and died on way to hospital.
The locals said that a group of Panzgman residents relocated near the Army base demanded that the corpses of the slain militants be handed over to them so that they could be given ‘decent Islamic funeral’.
SSP Kupwara Shamsher Hussain while confirming it said that the troops opened fire on a "violent mob".
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nati...er-kupwara-militant-attack-civilian-dies.html
Two militants also died in the troops’ retaliatory fire, the Army and police officials said in Srinagar.
Soon after the attack, protests by locals were held in nearby villages of Panzgam and Kralapora, reports received here said.
The officials said that a slogan chanting mob hurled stones at the Army and other security personnel just outside the Panzgam village, about a few kilometres from the Army base.
The troops opened fire on the mob which, the Army said, had tried to disturb movement of its men.
One person identified as Muhammad Yusuf Bhatt, 45, a resident of Panzgam, was killed and ten others were wounded, the reports said.
Bhatt, the reports added, was hit by a bullet in the neck and died on way to hospital.
The locals said that a group of Panzgman residents relocated near the Army base demanded that the corpses of the slain militants be handed over to them so that they could be given ‘decent Islamic funeral’.
SSP Kupwara Shamsher Hussain while confirming it said that the troops opened fire on a "violent mob".
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nati...er-kupwara-militant-attack-civilian-dies.html
