Protest erupts after killings...
Two civilians were killed and another injured in a firing incident outside a military camp in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district early Friday, officials said.
Army blamed "unidentified terrorists" for the firing and subsequent civilian casualties, but the local residents took to streets and resorted to stone pelting on the camp immediately after the incident to protest the killings allegedly by army sentry outside the Alpha gate of the army camp.
Senior civil and police officers are on the scene to pacify the agitating locals who have blocked the Jammu-Poonch National highway, demanding a probe into the incident and exemplary punishment to the erring personnel, officials said.
They said the incident occurred at around 6.15 am when a group of locals were approaching the army gate for entry for work.
The officials identified the deceased as Kamal Kumar and Surindar Kumar, both local residents of Rajouri, and said the injured, Anil Kumar of Utrakhand, was admitted to a hospital by army.
Army's White Knight Corps, in a tweet on its official handle, said "In an early morning firing incident by unidentified terrorists at Rajauri near Military Hospital, there has been fatal casualty of two individuals. The Police, security forces and civil administration officials are on the site."
The officials said the situation in the town is tense but under control.
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