104 CAPF jawans died in mishaps in 2019:NCRB

Tribune News Service

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New Delhi, September 3

The latest data of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has revealed that 104 personnel of the paramilitary forces lost their lives in 2019 due to accidents, as the figures stand at 2,006 in the past six years.

A break-up of the data for 2019 indicates that at least two personnel of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF), which work under the administrative control of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), died in accidents every week.

Of the total 2,006 such fatalities in the past six years, the maximum of 1,232 died in 2014 and the minimum of 104 each in 2018 and 2019.

Fourteen personnel were killed in action in 2019. As on January 1, 2019, the CAPF had an actual strength of 9,23,800 personnel.