In two back to back incidents of terrorist attacks an Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) of Jammu and Kashmir police and a civilian succumbed to their fatal injuries in Bijbehara area of Anantnag and Eidgah area of Srinagar late Wednesday evening.
In both the cases the terrorists targeted them from a close range and managed to ran away without facing any resistance.
According to media reports, the Resistance Front, an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba, has taken responsibility for the attacks.
According to Kashmir Zone police, "terrorists fired indiscriminately & critically injured a police personnel ASI Mohd Ashraf of PS Bijbehara, Anantnag. Later, injured ASI succumbed to his injuries & attained martyrdom".
ASI had reportedly received two gun shots in the neck and chest. He was first rushed to the Sub district hospital,Bijbehara from where he was referred to Srinagar but succumbed to his injuries while onway to the hospital.In the second incident,"terrorists fired upon a civilian namely Rouf Ahmad at Merjanpora, Eidgah PS Safakadal Srinagar.
The injured was shifted to SMHS hospital where he was declared dead.Meanwhile, in Jammu, the Director General of Police J&K, Dilbag Singh chaired a high level meeting at PCR Jammu and reviewed the security and crime scenario of Jammu Zone.ADGsP, Mukesh Singh, M. K. Sinha, Danesh Rana, IGsPGarib Dass, Alok Kumar, DIsG Vivek Gupta, SSP PCR, SSP Jammu, AIsG of PHQ attended the meeting at PHQ while range DIsG Sunil Gupta, Mohammad Suleman Choudhary and all district SSsP of Jammu Zone attended the meeting through video conferencing.
Addressing the meeting, the DGP directed the officers for improving the human intelligence resources so that no room is provided to the terror group to establish their bases in borders areas.
He stressed for alertness and effective surveillance in border areas to thwart any possible terror activity and stressed for time bound action. The measures regarding the law and orders were also discussed during the meeting.