Hours after unidentified militants snatched three rifles after shooting a policeman guarding a central Kashmir shrine, four policemen and two civilians were wounded in a separate attack when militants opened fire on a police party in Shopian town of south Kashmir.
Police said that late on Friday evening, unidentified militants attacked a police picket at Pakherpora in central Kashmir’s Budgam district. They shot at a policeman Shabir Ahmad and fled away after snatching three service rifles. The authorities have ordered a probe into the attack and suspended four cops who had left their weapons unattended. They were not spotted on duty when the attack occurred.
The wounded policeman is battling for his life in a premier hospital here.
Hours after the Pakherpora attack, militants opened indiscriminate fire in Shopian town on Saturday afternoon when a police party was patrolling in the Bonagam quarter of the volatile town. Sources said that militants opened fire from three spots. Four policemen and two civilians were wounded in the attack, one of them critically.
The police and security forces cordoned off the area after the attack and launched a search operation to track down the attackers.Meanwhile, a mysterious blast occurred in a passenger vehicle in south Kashmir's Anantnag town. Two policemen including a junior officer and five civilians were wounded in the blast that ripped off the front portion of the vehicle.
The security arrangements have been tightened in entire south Kashmir after the violent incidents.