Militants loot 2 more banks in J&K, snatch 5 rifles from cops
Police announces `10L reward for info on suspected Hizbul militant
Masked men brandishing assault rifles and pistols on Wednesday barged into two banks in Pulwama and decamped with over `6 lakh. The robberies took place within a span of two hours. Earlier on Tuesday night, militants snatched five rifles from policemen posted at a court complex in Shopian district.
Meanwhile, the police announced a cash reward of `10 lakh for information on Omer Majid who, it says, led a group of militants in shooting dead five policemen and two J&K bank security guards in Kulgam on Monday.
Gunmen believed to be militants have gone on bank robbery spree in the southern parts of Kashmir Valley. A day after a rural bank was looted at gunpoint in Kulgam district, masked men brandishing AK assault rifles and pistols on Wednesday barged into two other banks in Pulwama and decamped with over `6 lakh.
The robberies, which took place within a span of two hours, and the earlier two incidents, including murder of five policemen and two bank employees on board a cash van, have sent the authorities into tizzy. Also, the bankers, feeling scared, have decided to suspend their operation unless adequate security is provided to their businesses in the militancy-infested areas.
Meanwhile, the Jammu and Kashmir police has announced a cash reward of `10 lakh for information on Omer Majid who, it says, led a group of three Hizbul Mujahideen militants in shooting dead in cold blood five policemen and two J&K Bank security guards in Kulgam’s Pombai village on Monday. Reports from Pulwama said that the gunmen barged into the Ellaquai Dehati Bank in the district’s Wahibugh village and looted about `5 lakh. On Tuesday, the bank’s Kader, Yaripora branch in Kulgam was also raided by masked men who after taking the staff and customers hostage looted `65,850 from there at gunpoint.
Within two hours of Wednesday’s incident, another group of suspected militants looted a branch of J&K Bank Nehama in Pulwama.
Earlier on Tuesday night, militants snatched five self-loading rifles from policemen posted at a court complex in Shopian district, also in south Kashmir.