Jammu and Kashmir: Woman SPO shot dead by unknown gunmen in Shopian
Shopian, Mar 16 (IBNS): A woman special police officer was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian area on Sunday, officials said.
Kashmir Police Zone tweeted: " #Terrorists today shot at a #women police official Khushboo at Vehil #Shopian. She attained #martyrdom. We pay rich #tributes to #martyr for her sacrifices & condemn this gruesome act of #terror. We stand by her family at this critical juncture. @JmuKmrPolice @Sandeep_IPS_JKP."
#Terrorists today shot at a #women police official Khushboo at Vehil #Shopian. She attained #martyrdom. We pay rich #tributes to #martyr for her sacrifices & condemn this gruesome act of #terror. We stand by her family at this critical juncture. @JmuKmrPolice @Sandeep_IPS_JKP
— Kashmir Zone Police (@KashmirPolice) March 16, 2019
The officer was shot close to her house, reports said.
She was identified as Kushboo.
Official sources told UNI news agency that suspected militants fired at a woman SPO, identified as Kushboo, outside her residence in village Vehil in Shopian at around 1440 hrs on Saturday.
“The injured was immediately taken to a hospital, where she succumbed,” they said.
They said security forces have been rushed and a search operation has been launched to nab the attackers.
This is for the first time that a woman police personnel was attacked in the valley in the last over a decade.
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.
