SRINAGAR – A dismal tally shows that attacks on security forces in Jammuand Kashmir have grown in the first six months of the year, as compared tolast year.
A total of 69 security personnel have been killed in 170 attacks betweenJanuary and June in the restive state, compared to the 95 killed in thewhole of 2018.
And according to intelligence sources, around 300 militants are currentlyactive in the state and thus security has been beefed up for July, when thepilgrimage to Amarnath begins.
In June 2019, one of the bloodiest months in the valley, 11 securitypersonnel and officers were martyred.
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There were 17 acts of terror in 18 days, according to an internal notecirculated by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Security forces neutralised 16 militants in the sixth month of the year,including Sajjad Bhat, a Jaish-e-Mohammed commander believed to be the lastsurviving attacker behind the Pulwama attacks.