The Central Reserve Police Force commenting on the killing of civilian in Sopore has said that Militants hiding in a mosque killed an “old man” during the attack on CRPF forces in Sopore town of Baramulla district of Jammu Kashmir, Times now reported.
On Wednesday morning, a CRPF man and a civilian were killed when Militants attacked CRPF in model town of Sopore at Model Town Chowk in Sopore.
The paramilitary force, CRPF, in a statement issued in Delhi, said the violent incident began when its troops started getting down from their bus at the location to “occupy their respective spots of deployment. Militants hiding in the attic of a nearby mosque started firing indiscriminately on the troops resulting in injuries to four CRPF personnel,” it said.
“A civilian vehicle which was coming from Sopore and going towards Kupwara was caught in the firing range of terrorists. An old man who was driving the vehicle stopped the car and got down from vehicle to move away for safe spot but got killed by terrorists firing,” the force said.
The troops were from the G company of CRPF’s 179th battalion.
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