One SSB jawan killed, 8 hurt in militant attack in Srinagar

Four paramilitary troopers were injured when suspected militants attacked their camp on the outskirts of Srinagar city on Friday evening, officials said.

One SSB jawan killed, 8 hurt in militant attack in Srinagar
SRINAGAR: A Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) trooper was killed and six other security personnel injured when guerrillas attacked their convoy on the outskirts of Srinagar on Friday evening, police said.

An SSB trooper was killed and six other security men, including five SSB troopers and a state police driver, injured when militants attacked the convoy in Zakura area, 12 km from city centre Lal Chowk, around 7 pm, police said. “A 3-vehicle convoy of the SSB was returning after the day’s law and order duties on the Srinagar-Leh National Highway when militants attacked it outside the industrial estate in Zakura area where the SSB troops are camped.

“One SSB jawan sustained critical injuries in the attack and later succumbed. Six other security men including five SSB jawans and a driver of the state police have been injured in the attack,” said police, adding all the injured security men have been shifted to hospital. Police said additional security forces have been rushed to the spot, while the area has been cordoned off for searches, but firing has, however, stopped. The militants were believed to have fled the spot.

The attack, the second on security forces in the Kashmir Valley in less than a week, took place outside the highly sensitive Zakura industrial area that houses many offices and factories of small and medium businesses in Kashmir. Militancy-related violence and terror attacks on security forces have surged in J&K after the July 8 killing of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani.
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