4 cops injured in month’s third
militant attack in South Kashmir
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
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ANANTNAG, Jun 12: In the third
daredevil militant strike in South Kashmir this month, four officials of Kulgam
District Police sustained injuries on Sunday in Qazigund area, close to
Srinagar-Jammu highway.
Deputy Inspector General of Police in
South Kashmir, Nitish Kumar, told STATE TIMES that at least two militants in
ambush near Bonigam, each carrying AK-47 rifle, attacked a Tata-Sumo vehicle of
Kulgam Police Station at 6.10 pm when the Police party was on way to a spot for
an investigation. A head constable and three constables sustained injuries.
Police retaliated and forced the militants to retreat.
DIG said that two of the critically
injured personnel were evacuated and admitted to Army’s 92 Base Hospital in
Srinagar for treatment. He said that all the four injured were stable and out
of danger late tonight.
Residents said that the militants did
not straightaway attack the Police party. According to them, the militants
signalled the driver to stop and attempted to snatch away the AK-47 rifles from
two constables. As they met some resistance, the militants opened fire. Even as
two Policemen were critically injured and the militants attempted to take away
their guns, one of the injured constables put up sustained resistance. He
straightaway targeted the militants who were forced to escape. One of them
could be possibly injured.
SSP Kulgam Mohammad Irshad said that
at least two militants, armed with AK-47 rifles, attacked the Police party when
it was returning to Qazigund from a routine investigation. Head Constable
Manzoor and selection grade constable Altaf sustained multiple bullet injuries.
Constables Mohammad Yaqoob and Manzoor Ahmad received minor injuries as they
jumped out and took positions. The militants failed to snatch away the rifles
of the injured constables.
Trail of blood from the spot towards
a locality indicated that one militant got hit in the encounter. SSP said that
Police and security forces launched a massive search operation to arrest or
eliminate the militants involved in Sunday’s guerrilla attack on the Police
party.
Even as no militant outfit claimed
Sunday’s guerrilla strike till late, SSP Kulgam claimed to be in possession of
evidences suggesting that a group of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba
militants carried out the attack on the Police party.
Earlier this month, unidentified
militants attacked a BSF convoy at Bijbehara, on Srinagar-Jammu national
highway on June 3. Three BSF men were killed in the ambush. Next day, on June
4, unidentified militants attacked a Police party near General Bus Stand at KP
Road in Anantnag. Two Policemen, including an ASI, were killed.
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