Three policemen killed in separate attacks by militants in Srinagar
Militant outfit Hizb-ul-Mujahideen claimed the responsibility for the twin attacks which took place within few hours.
While the first attack took place at Zadibal, the second one happened in the Tengpora locality.
Confirming the second attack, a senior police official said, “Militants shot at a cop from point blank range and left him dead on spot. The militants also decamped with his service rifle."
Earlier in the morning, a group of militants attacked a police party of Zadibal Police Station when it was on routine duty in the Hazratbal area .
"In the firing two cops, including an officer lost their lives,” the police official said.
The slain policemen are ASI Nazeer Ahmad and Constable Bashir Ahmad .
"The attacks were carried out by a special squad of the outfit. Besides killing three policemen of Special Operation Group, the militants managed to decamp with a rifle of a slain policeman,” operational spokesperson of Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen, Burhan-ud-din told local news agency CNS in Srinagar.
(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
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