Militants kill cop in valley ULTRAS OPERATING FROM PRISONS: NIA
The restive Kashmir Valley is once again witnessing escalation in violent attackers on policemen. Over past few days, at least two policemen were killed and one critically injured in sneak attacks by suspected militants.
In one such attack the wife of one of the police officials was critically wounded.
On Saturday, two such attacks took place in southern part of the Valley considered by officials as a hotbed of insurgency. One special police officer (SPO) was killed and another was critically wounded, police officials said.
The police said militants shot SPO Muhammad Ashraf Mir in chest near Murran Chowk, a busy intersection in Pulwama district. He was rushed to the district hospital where he succumbed, the police added. Mir, a resident of Pulwama's Machpona, was a former militant who A probe by the National Investigation Agency into a recent raid on the Srinagar prison has revealed that some of the jail inmates, who may also include some of the main terror operatives, were in regular touch with the over ground workers (OGWs) or sympathisers of terror groups in had been absorbed by the police department after he decided to shun violence.
Earlier during the day, another SPO identified as Turaq Singh (a report mentioned his name as Trilok Singh) was shot and critically wounded by gunmen at Khanabal Chowk in neighbouring Anantnag district.
On March 29, SPO Mushtaq Ahmed Sheikh the Valley from inside the jail.
NIA sources also suspect that some of the calls from inside the jail may also have been made to some satellite phones to handlers and other important militants currently operating out of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. The NIA had seized 25 mobile phones, a Pakistani flag and pen drives in the raid. was shot dead by suspected militants inside his home in Anantnag's Katoo Wapzan village.
Officials said that apart from usual combats, hundreds of policemen have been targeted by militants in similar fashion during the three-decade old militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, many of them while off duty and visiting their homes.