Suicide attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, 2015

December 7: Six CRPF personnel were injured when militants opened firing on their convoy near Green Tunnel at Samthan in Bijbehara in South Kashmir's Anantnag District. The militants left first few vehicles and targeted two vehicles in the convoy and fled after the attack taking the cover of dense trees. CRPF spokesman, Ashish Kumar Jha, said that three militants in Army fatigues appeared from nearby fields at Sangam in Anantnag near Bijbehara this morning at around 10 am and fired at CRPF convoy. "It was some sort of a Fidayeen attack on the convoy. The militants had planned a proper and big attack on our security forces. But due to alertness of the CRPF Road Opening Patrol deployed on the highway the attack was thwarted. Otherwise, it would have been a major attack," Jha said. The HM outfit has claimed responsibility for the attack. LeT spokesman, Dr Abdullah Ghaznavi, also claimed responsibility for the attack on the CRPF convoy.

November 25: Three JeM militants and a generator operator of MES were killed in an encounter when a group of heavily armed Fidayeen militants attacked Army camp near LoC at Tanghdar in North Kashmir's Kupwara District. Two Army officers were also injured in the attack and several Army barracks, vehicles and kerosene depot were gutted in the encounter that lasted several hours. The pouches recovered from them had written on them Afzal Guru Brigade. Oil depot inside the camp caught fire during the gun battle which later spread to nearby barracks gutting five of them, including a generator room. Besides, three vehicles were also gutted in the incident. Militants killed a local employee of MES, Tanveer Ahmad Sheikh, who was operating power generator inside the camp. The bodies of the militants were handed over to local Auqaf Committee for burial.

May 31: Army foiled fidayeen attack on its Brigade headquarters in Tanghdar sector of Kupwara District by killing four members of six heavily armed militants. Later, during search operation Army recovered one more civilian body near Brigade headquarters in Tanghdar sector of the District taking the death toll rises to five. Sources said that security guard of supply depot of the Army outside the Brigade headquarters noticed the movement of militants near the depot and fired at them. The militants fired back and Army airlifted 40 members of elite Army Commandos of 4-Para from Kupwara District to conduct the operation against the heavily armed militants. DIG of Police, North Kashmir Range, Gareeb Dass told that four militants were killed near the Brigade Headquarters in Tanghdar sector.

March 21: In a fresh incident, two terrorists were killed during a fidayeen attack at the Army camp on Jammu-Pathankote National Highway in Samba District. Three persons including one civilian, a Major and an Army jawan were also injured during the attack.

March 20: A fidayeen squad of militants in Army fatigues stormed a Police Station in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua District, killing seven persons, including three SF personnel, two civilian and two militants while 12 persons, including eight CRPF personnel, three Policemen and a civilian were also injured in the incident. Two AK-47 rifles with 21 magazines and 156 rounds, 19 live grenades, two wire cutters, two pistols and 61 rounds were recovered from the slain militants.

Source: Constructed from media reports