Two people were killed and one was injured after a poll duty vehicle met with an accident near Tuksan in the Gulabgarh area of Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district on Tuesday, an official said.
Security has been beefed up in the Shikari area of Reasi district in Jammu and Kashmir after an encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists on Friday.
The Election Commission on Tuesday issued the notification for the first phase of the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, marking the start of the nomination process.
As the nation gears up for the celebration of Independence Day, a Tiranga Rally was taken out with a 750-metre-long tricolour on the world's highest railway bridge on the Chenab River in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday.
Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday handed over the appointment letter to the wife of the bus driver killed in the Reasi Terror attack.
A group of two to three armed personnel coming from Pakistan side crossed the Line of Control and fired on a forward Army post from close proximity while taking advantage of bad weather and poor visibility in Machhal Sector in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district.
Kashmir Singh Thakur, Reasi State Disaster Response Force said, "Three dead bodies have been recovered and they have been shifted to the hospital. One child was injured and he had also been shifted."
The BSF chief, who is on two-day visit to the border guarding force's Jammu frontier from July 20 to assess the security situation along the Jammu International Border, also engaged in detailed discussions with unit commandants, focusing on various operational aspects and the preparedness