Srinagar
Train services were suspended in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district following the killing of a civilian in Kakapora area late Sunday night.
“We have suspended train services in South Kashmir for security reasons,” a railway official said.
However, trains continued to chug on Srinagar-Budgam in central Kashmir to Baramulla in north Kashmir as per schedule, officials said.
A police official said that militants fired upon army’s 50 Rashtriya Rifles camp at Kakapora around 10:15 pm last night. “The militants first lobbed a grenade and later fired towards the camp. Soldiers retaliated the fire triggering a brief gun battle in which a civilian and a soldier were injured,” he said.
The injured were rushed to the hospital where a civilian identified as Bilal Ahmad Ganie- sumo driver by profession–son of Muhammad Ramzan Ganie of Narwa Pulwama and a soldier succumbed to their injuries.
