New Delhi, November 21

With border guarding force BSF facing the maximum brunt, in the last three nearly 400 paramilitary personnel lost their lives in operations in the country, including firing from across the Indo-Pak border and terrorist and insurgency-related incidences.

A senior Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) official said as per the latest data available, of the total nearly 400 casualties in the line of duty, the maximum (167 personnel) from the BSF were killed between 2015 and 2017. A majority of them lost their lives while guarding the highly sensitive borders in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has lost 103 personnel, mostly while fighting Naxals and militancy in J&K, the MHA official said.

While the BSF lost 62 men in action in 2015, 58 in 2016 and 47 in 2017, the CRPF lost nine personnel in action in 2015, 42 in 2016 and 52 in 2017. As many as 48 personnel of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) were killed in action, the official added.

The SSB guards the Indo-Bhutan and Indo-Nepal border. The troops of the force are also deployed in internal security duties. Sixteen were killed in 2015, 15 in 2016 and 17 in 2017. — TNS