ISLAMABAD – In occupied Kashmir, Indian Army Personnel that included acolonel, a major, two soldiers and a police officer were killed in anattack during a cordon and search operation jointly launched by Indian Armyand police at Rajwar in in Handwara area of Kupwara district on Sunday.
Kashmir media reported that Among those from Indian Army Personnel killedhave been identified as Colonel Ashutosh Sharma, Major Anuj, a Lance Naik,a rifleman and police Sub-Inspector Shakeel Qazi.
Indian army officials said the commanding officer of 21 Rashtriya Riflesalong with four others had entered a house during the operation where theywere fired upon and killed.
They said the bodies of the slain personnel have been recovered. IndianArmy and police launched a joint operation They surrounded a house andopened fire.
Earlier Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred twoKashmiri youth during a cordon and search operation in Dangerpora area ofPulwama district, today.
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The troops also destroyed a residential house by using explosive material.People took to streets and staged forceful anti-India demonstrations in thearea.
They raised high-pitched pro-freedom and anti-India slogans. Indian policeand troops fired pellets and teargas shells to disperse the protesters.Dozens of youth were injured, some of them critically, in the brutalactions of the forces’ personnel.
The troops have also launched a similar operation in Chanjmulla area ofKupwara district. Illegally detained Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir IslamiTanzeem-e-Azadi, Abdul Samad Inqilabi, in a statement issued in Srinagarpaid rich tributes to the martyred Kashmiri youth.
