By IANS
Lucknow : Seven Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and a civilian were killed early Tuesday when two terrorists opened fire with AK-47 rifles at a CRPF camp in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur town, the police said.
The gunmen sneaked into the CRPF Group Centre located off the Grand Truck Road on the outskirts of Rampur at 3 a.m. and opened indiscriminate fire, Inspector General of Police Gurbachan Lal told IANS.
Five CRPF troopers, a police constable and a Home Guard were also injured.
Both attackers fled as the troopers fired back. Lal said that at least one of them had probably been shot in the leg because he was seen limping away.
The civilian who died was reported to be a rickshaw puller. It was not clear how and why he got killed in a CRPF man.
Lal said the injured men were taken to Moradabad town for treatment. Their condition was reported to be stable.
Lal said a public road that ran through the CRPF base had been closed after terrorist attacks elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh in November.
“However, the possibility of the terrorists using this route to escape cannot be ruled out,” he said. The police have cordoned off the area and started a search for the attackers.