Kashmir
Kashmir: Militants attack CRPF ROP in Srinagar, no damage reported
Srinagar/UNI: Militants attacked a Road Opening Party (ROP) of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) at Nowgam in the outskirts of Srinagar on Monday, official sources said.
They said a ROP of CRPF was attacked by militants with automatic weapons at Nowgam bypass.
However, no one was injured, they said adding security forces present in the area also retaliated but the militants managed to escape.
Later, security forces and police personnel rushed from nearby camps and the police station immediately sealed the area and launched a massive search operation against the militants.
Traffic on Pantha Chowk-Baramulla highway was disrupted as a precautionary measure for over an hour.
This was the second such attack on security forces in the Nowgam area of the bypass in the city outskirts since Aug 14, when two police personnel were killed and another was injured.
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