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Since 2016, 323 armed forces personnel killed in militant attacks in JK: GoI

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Government on Tuesday revealed that 587 armed forces personnel have been killed in militant attacks across India since 2016 till June 15 this year and 323 of them were killed in Jammu and Kashmir.

Replying to a question of Sunil Kumar Singh in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Home, G Kishan Reddy said that 82 personnel were killed in J&K in 2016, 80 in 2017, 91 in 2018 and 70 till June 15 this year.

Similarly, he said, 38 personnel were killed in Chhattisgarh in 2016, 60 in 2017, 55 in 2018 and 14 in 2019 (till June 15).

The remaining personnel, he said, were killed in Andhra Pradesh (1), Bihar (1), Jharkhand (8), Maharashtra (21), Odisha (12), Aandhra Pradesh (6), Assam (8), Manipur (26), Meghalaya (1) and Nagaland (6).

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