Hours after RR Swain took over the charge of the office of the Director General of Police, 'unidentified' terrorists barged inside the residence of a police head constable in the Wailoo Kralpora area of Baramulla and killed him in cold blood late Tuesday evening.
This is the third incident of a targeted strike in a row since Sunday afternoon.
According to Kashmir Zone police, critically wounded Head Constable Ghulam Mohd Dar, a resident of Wailoo Kralpora, Baramulla was rushed to the Sub-divisional hospital, Tangmarg but he succumbed to his injuries. According to police, the head constable was targeted at his residence late Tuesday evening.
Kashmir Zone police posted a message on X (earlier Twitter), "Injured Police Personnel succumbed to his injuries & attained martyrdom. We pay our rich tributes to the martyr & stand by his family at this critical juncture. The area has been cordoned off. Search operation going on".
On Sunday a police inspector Masroor Ahmad was targeted from a close range by unidentified terrorists in the Eidgah area when he was playing a game of cricket with local boys. A day later, a brick kiln worker, Mukesh Kumar, hailing from the Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh, was killed in cold blood in the Nowpora area of Pulwama on Monday.