Kulgam terror attack LIVE: Search underway for unidentified motorcyclists, security tightened across J&K
Kulgam: Security forces have intensified the search for two unidentified motorcyclists who allegedly opened fire on CRPF personnel at a checkpoint in Kulgam. Three CRPF personnel were injured in the attack.
The incident took place around 2.15 pm near Mir Bazar. The area has been cordoned off and a massive search operation is underway to trace the attackers, who fled after opening fire, officials said.
The injured personnel were taken to a hospital in Anantnag district. One of them is in critical condition with abdominal injuries, while the other two sustained relatively minor injuries. One suffered a grazing bullet wound to his arm, while the other was hit in the foot.
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It's a shoot-and-scoot kind of attack, says defense expert
Defense expert Hemant Mahajan said that the terror attack took place in Kulgam was a shoot-and-scoot kind of attack.
“In the sense that the terrorists came in some kind of a vehicle, fired, injured CRPF jawans, and thereafter disappeared… I am not surprised by this kind of attack. Though I want to clarify here itself that this was a shoot-and-scoot kind of attack, meaning that if the terrorists had stayed put, they would have been killed. I have no doubt in my mind that in the next one to two weeks, they will be tracked down and killed. But this kind of surprise attack, intended to show that everything is not normal, will take place once in a while,” he told ANI.#WATCH | Pune, Maharashtra: On 3 CRPF personnel injured after unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants opened fire on security personnel deployed at a naka in Kulgam, Defence Expert Hemant Mahajan says, "This terror attack, which took place in Kulgam on a CRPF picket, was a shoot-and-scoot kind of an attack. In the sense that the terrorists came in some kind of a vehicle, fired, injured CRPF jawans, and thereafter disappeared... I am not surprised by this kind of attack. Though I want to clarify here itself that this was a shoot-and-scoot kind of attack, meaning that if the terrorists had stayed put, they would have been killed. I have no doubt in my mind that in the next one to two weeks, they will be tracked down and killed. But this kind of surprise attack, intended to show that everything is not normal, will take place once in a while. It is a long haul as far as fighting terrorism backed by Pakistan is concerned. We have to be ready for it, and we have to be prepared..."
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Three CRPF jawans injured in terrorist attack
Motorcycle-borne terrorists opened fire at a Central Reserve Police Force checkpost in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district on Wednesday, injuring three CRPF personnel, one of them critically, officials said. - PTI
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