New Delhi, Jan. 20 -- A significant 2,200 Central paramilitary forces' personnel died due to reasons like accidents and suicides in a five year period from 2014 to 2018, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data.
However, such casualties are declining over the years. A total of 132 deaths that included 28 suicides and 104 accidents were recorded in 2018.
In 2014, when the NCRB had first collected data of such cases linked to paramilitary forces, as many as 1,232 accident-related deaths were reported and suicide figures stood at 175.
The number of accident-related deaths stood at 113 in 2017, 260 in 2016 and 193 in 2015. Suicide cases stood at 60 in 2017, 74 in 2016 and
60 in 2015, according to the NCRB data.
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