New Delhi: A bus carrying 15 personnel of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) was attacked by terrorists in Jammu early Friday.


The incident occurred at around 4.25 am near Chaddha Camp in Jammu when the officials were going for morning shift duties, news agency ANI reported a senior officer as informing.


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"CISF averted the terrorist attack, retaliated effectively, and forced the terrorists to run away," the officer said.


"In the line of action, one Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) of CISF lost his life and two others are injured," he told ANI.






"Our 13 companies are deployed in law and order support duty across J&K. CISF was deployed in the outer cordon where a search operation was underway. Today, a terrorist attack took place when CISF personnel were boarding the bus near Chhadha Camp," Dr Anil Pandey, DIG Operations, CISF informed.


In the counter-terror operation, a terrorist was also killed, PTI reported a CISF officer as informing.


Later, last respects were paid to CISF ASI SP Patel in a wreath-laying ceremony in Jammu.






The incident comes two days ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's scheduled visit to Samba district, security arrangements have been heightened in the union territory in view of the same.


The Prime Minister is scheduled to visit Pali village to address a gathering on National Panchayati Raj Day (April 24).


This will be Modi's first visit to Jammu and Kashmir other than the borders since the abrogation of the special status of the erstwhile state and its bifurcation in August 2019.


Notably, in a major attack in December last year, terrorists had opened fire on a police bus ferrying soldiers of the ninth battalion of the Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police near Zewan in the Pantha Chowk area of Srinagar. 


The incident brought back memories of the February 2019 terror strike in Pulwama that killed 40 CRPF personnel. A CRPF bus was targeted by a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) suicide bomber who detonated his explosives-laden SUV near it on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Pulwama. 


Soon after the Pulwama attack, the IAF had carried out an airstrike in Pakistan's Balakot on February 26 targeting terrorist camps.


(With Agency Inputs)