Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today condemned the killing of two Indian soldiers, which she said occurred "in a cross-Line of Control (LoC) fire" in the Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch district.
In her statement, Mehbooba, who is also the president of ruling PDP, condemned "the killing of two soldiers in a cross-Line of Control (LoC) fire in the Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch district".
According to army officials, the two Indian security personnel -- an army soldier and a BSF head constable -- were killed in an attack carried out by Pakistan's Border Action Team (BAT) under the cover of shelling by its troops.
They also said that the two security pesronnel were beheaded.
Mehbooba also condemned the killing of five cops and two employees of J&K Bank by terrorists in the Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, saying "reflects the dangerous turn towards criminalisation the society is taking".
She also expressed grief over the death of a civilian in a grenade attack in a Khanyar area of Srinagar.
Mehbooba said she has been warning of the ill consequences of violence time and again and made an appeal to the civil society to rise to the occasion to make the future of the younger generation peaceful.
The Jammu and Kashmir Congress Committee also condemned the killing of police personnel and bank employees in Kulgam.
A spokesperson of the Congress termed the killings an "irreparable loss" and asked the police higher ups to ascertain the identity of the killers for handing out stern punishment to them.
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