According to the data, 13 security force personnel have lost their lives in Jammu and Kashmir. But the officials claim that the security forces have an upper hand against militants and that the militancy is on a downward trajectory.
Seven of those personnel were from Jammu and Kashmir Police, three from the CRPF, and three from the Army. They were killed in nine separate incidents in the Valley, three of which took place in south Kashmir, three in Srinagar, two in Sopore, and one in central Kashmir’s Budgan district.
Statistics tells that of the 13 security force casualties in the Valley in militancy violence this year, only two were killed in encounters. An army man and a Special Police Officer (SPO) of J&K police were killed in two separate encounters. The SPO was killed in an encounter with militants in the Beerwah area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district on 17th February while the army man was killed in a gun battle with militants in the south Kashmir’s Shopian district.
11 security personnel were killed in seven militant attacks across the Valley including in the south, central, and north Kashmir. An army soldier was killed and three others were injured in an IED blast carried out by militants at the Shamsipora area.
