Mistaken Identity: 2 Indian Army Personnel Killed In Kashmir

New Delhi, Oct 23, IRNA - Two Indian army personnel were killed and another was injured as an army team fired at another mistaking it to be militants in central Kashmir's Budgam district Monday, official sources said Monday. Troops of 53 Rastriya Rifles set up a vehicle check post at Chattergam chowk, 20 kms from here, in Chadoora area of Budgam following information about movement of militants through the area, pti reported quoting official sources as said. A team of 35 Rashtriya Rifles men traveling in a civilian vehicle did not stop at the check point, giving rise to suspicion among the troops at the check post, who opened fire. Sepoy Ghulam Rasool Sheikh, Naik Setien Tao of 25 Rashtriya Rifles and Territorial Army driver Abdul Rauf were wounded and admitted to the 92 Base Hospital at Badamibagh Army headquarters where Sheikh and Rauf succumbed./end