A policeman was killed and four others were injured when lashkar-e-Tayyeba (leT) terrorists opened fire on a bus carrying personnel of the armed wing of the Jammu & Kashmir Police late on Friday evening. The attack was carried out a day after a junior officer was shot at and injured in south Kashmir’s Shopian district.
Sources said terrorists opened fire on the bus around 8 pm at Zewan village where headquarters of the armed police is located. The cops were returning from daylong deployment in capital Srinagar. The fortified headquarters is located on a hillock closer to Srinagar-Jammu National Highway near the XV corps headquarters.
Official said at least six policemen were injured in the attack, two of them critically. The injured cops were immediately shifted to hospital for treatment. Unconfirmed reports said that one policeman later succumbed to his injuries.
A police spokesman said that four policemen were injured in the attack, one of them critically.
The attack came a day after terrorists targeted an off-duty assistant sub-inspector of police at Kapran village of Shopian in south Kashmir.
He was shifted to hospital in a critical State. On August 28, terrorists killed assistant sub-inspector Abdul Rashid Peer at Anantnag town. As many as 24 policemen have been killed by terrorists this year, the highest fatal casualties in many years.