Srinagar: A group of militants appeared at the funeral of a slain associate and fired a volley of bullets in the air as a form of ‘gun salute’ in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Sunday. The alarming incident occurred during the funeral of Fayaz Ahmed alias Setha, a resident of Qaimoh area of Kulgam, who was killed in retaliation yesterday after militants had fired upon a police party which had gone to Mir Bazaar area to investigate a road accident. Two civilians and a cop were also killed in the attack yesterday. At least four militants appeared in the crowd during the funeral and offered “gun salute” to the slain by firing in the air from their AK-assault rifles today, police officials said. The incident comes just a couple of days after the security forces carried out a major combing operation in the neighbouring Shopian district to flush out militants. (PTI)
CRPF men killed in jumbo attack in Bengaluru
Bengaluru: Two CRPF personnel died on Sunday when wild elephants attacked them outside Bannerughatta National Park near Kaggalipura village on the outskirts of the city on Sunday. Police officials said the two CRPF men, belonged to the Dog Breeding Station of the CRPF situated in the area outside the park had ventured out of the camp early morning when they were attacked by elephants. Initial reports said the deceased were identified as Kuttappa (55) belonging to Haveri district of Karnataka and Murthy (35) hailing from Tamil Nadu. The duo had come out of the camp when the elephants from a nearby thick foliage attacked them. They had no idea of the presence of the pachyderms in the vicinity at it was still dark and Sun had not risen. While Murthy died on the spot after an elephant trampled him, the seriously injured Kuttappa died on way to a nearby hospital, police said. Wild elephants have been intruding into human habitats out of Bannerughatta National Park amid severe drought conditions as they do not find fodder and water inside. (PTI)
Tiger found dead in Satpura reserve of MP
Bhopal: A tiger was found dead in Bori range of the Satpura Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh’s Hoshangabad district. “It appears that the tiger, aged over 5, succumbed to the injuries apparently sustained in a fight with a gaur (Indian bison),” Bori forest range officer Hari Prasad Pal said on Sunday. “During patrolling on Friday evening, we found the tiger lying dead near the bones and horns of a bison it killed earlier in the core area of the reserve,” he said. The tiger’s carcass had some injuries, especially in the chest, which seemed inflicted by the bison’s horns, Pal said. He said the postmortem of the feline was on Saturday conducted according to the guidelines of the National Tiger Conservation Authority. The tiger was captured after it strayed from the forest area into an Ordnance Factory at Itarsi in Hoshangabad about six months ago, Pal said. (PTI)