Stage set for tomorrow’s polling in high profile Udhampur LS seat amid high security
Jammu and Kashmir has five Lok Sabha constituencies and each one will go to polls in separate phases because of security reasons.
A Central Reserve Police Force jawan was killed and four other security men were injured on Saturday after militants attacked a CRPF vehicle here in Jammu and Kashmir.
Police said militants attacked the CRPF vehicle in Pantha Chowk on the outskirts of Srinagar city outside the Delhi Public School (DPS) in the evening.
"A sub-inspector of the CRPF was killed and two CRPF troopers injured in this attack," police said.
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In another incident, a local policeman and a CRPF trooper were injured at the site of the militant attack when the rifle of a policeman went off accidentally.
The injured have been shifted to hospital for treatment and the school has been surrounded to trace the militants, police said.
Spokesman of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Abdullah Ghaznavi called a local news agency to own responsibility for the attack.
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