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Seven CRPF jawans killed in IED blast in Jammu

Mukhtar Ahmed in Jammu

Seven members of the Central Reserve Police Force were killed and four persons were seriously wounded in a powerful improvised explosive device blast near Ramsu on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway on Monday afternoon.

Police sources in Jammu said that a CRPF bus carrying soldiers hit the IED near Ramsu resulting in blast.

The injured were shifted to hospital in Banihal for treatment.

No one has yet admitted responsibility for the blast.

Earlier, militants gunned down a prominent National Conference activist identified as Ghulam Nabi near his house in Dalal Mohalla in Jammu on Monday morning police said

Ghulam Nabi, who was also the general secretary of the municipal employees union, was shot at from a close range and received bullet wounds in his neck and died in the hospital.

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