SRINAGAR: A soldier from 32 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and two civilians, including a woman, were killed in three separate terror incidents across the Kashmir Valley on Friday.

In the morning, security forces cordoned off Kachlu village in North Kashmir’s Handwara after getting specific information about the presence of terrorists there. As soon as the search operation started, terrorists opened fire. In the exchange of fire, 24-year-old rifleman Ram Babu of RR received bullet injuries and later died. He hailed from Jagatpur village in Chiwan district of Nepal. The operation was called off after the terrorists managed to escape, reports said.

In the second incident that happened in the afternoon, terrorists shot dead a woman at Drabgam village in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district . According to the police, a couple of terrorists came to Drabgam and opened fire on 38-year-old Shameema Begum, wife of Ali Muhammad Bhat of Koil village. Shameema had come to Drabgam to meet her parents. She was hit by several of the bullets and succumbed to her injuries in a hospital.

In the last incident, one civilian was killed and three others were injured after terrorists lobbed a grenade on the office of SP Awantipora in South Kashmir in the afternoon. An official said, the grenade exploded outside the main gate of the SP office, resulting in injuries to four civilians, of whom Abdul Ahad died at SMHS Srinagar .

