The CRPF is providing arms training to Village Defence Guards (VDG) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri to prepare them to tackle terrorists in case any attack takes place.
CRPF inspector Varinder Kumar told ANI, "In view of recent attacks, we have been deployed here. They have weapons and we are providing them training to act in emergency situations."
The development comes days after seven civilians died in an encounter in Rajouri recently. The January 1 attacks in the village had left six people dead and several others injured. Two cousins were killed and nine other persons were injured in a powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in the village the next morning. The IED was planted by terrorists before fleeing.
The death toll in the January 1 killings in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri rose to seven with one more civilian succumbing to injuries at a hospital in Jammu on Sunday, officials said
According to the report, the victim, identified as Prince Sharma, reportedly died at the Government Medical College (GMC) Hospital, where he was shifted for specialised treatment along with several others after getting critically injured in the firing by terrorists in Dhangri village.
White Knight Corps of the Indian Army informed on Sunday on Twitter of neutralising two terrorists involved in the incident. "Operations to nab terrorists involved in the Dhangri attack continue. Alert troops deployed on the border fence in Balakot detected and neutralised two terrorists so far", it tweeted.
According to an ANI report, while four people were gunned down on January 1 evening, two children were killed, and several others injured after a suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast occurred in the same vicinity in Rajouri's Upper Dhangri village on January 2 morning.