Death of 9 security personnel in 5 days in Kashmir alarm officials as militants 'hit back' against counter-insurgency ops
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Death of 9 security personnel in 5 days in Kashmir alarm officials as militants 'hit back' against counter-insurgency ops

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Expressing concern over the increase in the number of security personnel killed in Kashmir, a senior police officer said that rise in attacks shows that militants in the Valley have started hitting back against counter-insurgency ops As the air in Anantnag town of south Kashmir was rattled by the sound of wheezing bullets on 12 June, Station House Officer Arshad Ahmad Khan asked his men to grab their weapons. While the first five months of 2019 yielded significant number of militant kills for the security forces, this month has been bad with an army major and the young SHO among nine casualties suffered by forces personnel this month alone in Kashmir. In south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on 12 June, a lone unidentified militant, believed to be a Pakistani, shot dead five CRPF personnel and Khan, showing that militancy in Kashmir might be getting a new lease of life with well-trained militants from across the border carrying out deadly strikes on security forces. The attack carried out in broad daylight by militants on KP road in Anantnag “was a daring strike”, said the senior police officer in south Kashmir, adding, “The attacker did not move from his position until he targeted five CRPF personnel and the incoming police team.” After the Pulwama attack on 14 February, in which a suicide bomber rammed his explosive laden car into a CRPF convoy, killing over 40 CRPF personnel and bringing India and Pakistan on the brink of a full-blown war, militants carried out another deadly strike on Monday, this time against the Indian Army.

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