Three Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were injured in an attack on a check-post of the force in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam when motorcycle-borne terrorists opened fire at the camp on Wednesday, November 11, afternoon.
Around 30 shots were fired in barely 15 seconds at first, and another dozen shots were heard within the next minute during the attack on the camp at Akhran near Mir Bazar, officials said. Some of the visuals and the sound of bullets being fired were captured on a security camera, splinters or small rocks falling into the camera’s view.
CRPF said in a statement that the incident took place at around 2.15 pm when the assailants fired at CRPF personnel before fleeing the spot. “The injured personnel were shifted to a hospital in Anantnag district for treatment,” added the statement.
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The three injured security personnel—identified as Rakesh Dass, Santosh Chandru, and Somveer Singh—were reported to be out of danger. Chandru suffered wounds to his abdomen and spine; Dass an injury to his left leg; and Singh was injured in his left arm in the firing.
Additional barricades were put up, and security personnel in armoured vehicles were seen near the site immediately after the attack, and reinforcements were sent. Ambulances arrived immediately, and loudspeaker announcements were made asking locals to stay indoors.
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Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha was in Kulgam during this attack, but not near the site of the attack.
In the security camera footage, only one CRPF personnel is visible at first. As he sits in front of a line of shops, the attack seems to be taking place to his right, from where another personnel is seen running into the frame. The two personnel, armed with machine guns, are later seen moving back towards the spot where the firing sound was apparently coming from.
Four CRPF officers were injured in an IED blast while defusing residual explosives at Alarmedgu camp in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh last month.
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CRPF sources said an intense manhunt has been set off to trace and apprehend the bike-borne terrorists who fired at the camp at Kulgam.
The Kulgam attack was a surprise attack, possibly intended to show that everything was not normal, say defence experts.
