Srinagar: An officer of Central Industrial Security Force was killed when militants attacked CISF’s camp, guarding a power grid station, at Wagoora Nowgam in outskirts of Srinagar around 2 a.m. on Saturday.
“In the intervening night a standoff fire by militants took place at the grid Station Wagoora in Nowgam area in which one ASI of CISF sustained serious bullet injuries,” a police official said, adding that the attack was “successfully repulsed” by the alert sentry at the spot.
The injured ASI, Rajendra Prasad, was evacuated to the hospital for medical attention however he succumbed at the hospital. “The area has been sanitized by the security forces,” the official added.
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