Team News Riveting
New Delhi, January 4
Additional 10 companies of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) will be deployed in Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of recent killings of civilians in two fresh terror attacks in Rajouri district.
Six persons, including two children, were killed and many more injured in two separate terror attacks in Upper Dangri village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Sunday evening and Monday morning. In the latest terror attack, two children were killed and several others injured after a suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast took place in Rajouri’s Upper Dangri village on Monday morning.
In the first attack, two armed terrorists barged into three homes in the same vicinity on Sunday evening and opened indiscriminate fire. The attack led to the killing of four civilians and injuries to six others.
Nearly a dozen people were reportedly injured in the two terror attacks by the terrorists since Sunday evening. The injured were being treated in Jammu hospital. These separate attacks are the third such incidents of civilian killings in the Rajouri district in the past two weeks after two people were killed outside an Army camp on December 16.
The move to beef up security was following a recent order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs amidst intelligence input about the terror attack in the Jammu region.
Sources said the 18 CRPF companies – approximately 1,800 personnel – would be rushed to the Jammu region for deployment mainly in Poonch and Rajouri districts. While eight companies would be deployed soon from nearby locations of deployment in Jammu and Kashmir, 10 companies would be rushed from Delhi.
