Militants on April 22 shot at and injured two non-local labourers in the Nowgam area on the outskirts of the Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), reports Daily Excelsior.
Meanwhile, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) officer, Sub-Inspector Dev Raj, injured in a militant attack on April 18 in the Kakapora area of Pulwama District succumbed at SHMS hospital in Srinagar on April 22, reports Greater Kashmir. Two RPF Policemen were injured after a pistol-borne militant shot them from point blank range in the Kakapora area. Head Constable Surinder Kumar succumbed to his injuries on the same day.
Separately, two Fedayeen (suicide) attackers, who were killed by Security Forces (SFs) in a gunfight near an Army camp in Sunjwan, on the outskirts of Jammu town, in the morning of April 22, were identified as the Pakistan nationals who belongs to Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) outfit, reports Daily Excelsior. The militants were in their mid-twenties. The militants appeared to have infiltrated recently which was evident from the fact that they were carrying Pakistan made diclofenac and paracetamol tablets and had planned to create sensational terror strike on any security installations just two days ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Palli Gram Panchayat in Samba District to address rally of nearly one lakh people and launch various development projects. Both the slain militants were wearing explosive filled jackets with a view to repeat Pathankot airbase like killings of security personnel while shifting their bodies. However, alert teams of Bombs Disposal Squad first detonated explosives in the jackets and then retrieved the bodies.