State Director General of Police Ashok Prasad has been asked by the Jammu and Kashmir government to conduct\u00a0a detailed inquiry into the suicide attack on a CRPF camp and killing of a youth in alleged firing by security forces.<\/p>\n
“The DGP, who is camping in Srinagar, will be making a detailed inquiry into the happenings,” an official spokesman said after a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah late last night.<\/p>\n
Five jawans of 73 battalion CRPF were killed and 10 other persons including four civilians were injured in a suicide attack by two militants on their camp in Bemina area of the city.<\/p>\n
The two assailants were shot dead in retaliatory action by the security forces.<\/p>\n
A man was shot dead allegedly by a unit of the 73 battalion of CRPF at Zoonimar yesterday when they were attacked with stones by some youth while returning from a hospital.<\/p>\n
The spokesman said the state government has strongly condemned the terrorist attack at Bemina.<\/p>\n
“The Chief Minister in the Unified headquarters meeting last evening condoled the death of CRPF jawans and conveyed the sympathies of the govt to the DGP CRPF,” he said.<\/p>\n
The spokesman said the government has also taken note of the incident at Zoonimar in which a civilian, Altaf Ahmad Wani \u2013 who was a worker of ruling National Conference \u2013 died.<\/p>\n
The chief minister said that violence has no place in a civilised society and advised all the agencies to exercise maximum restraint in dealing with the current situation.<\/p>\n
Curfew has been imposed in Srinagar district as protests broke out yesterday following Wani’s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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