J& K militants abduct, kill 2 civilians; SPO wounded

Lashkar- e- Tayyaba ( LeT) militants abducted and later shot dead two persons in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Saturday. Another civilian was killed by militants in Baramulla district and a special police officer injured in Pulwama in separate incidents.

The militants barged into the houses of Ghulam Hassan Dar alias Hassan Rassa, 45, and his relative Bashir Ahmad Dar, 26, — both residents of Gulshan Mohalla, Shahgund Hajin in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district — on Friday night and abducted

them, a police official said.

“At about 3.30 am on Saturday, the militants shot both of them dead,” he said.

Their bodies were found by near a mosque at Raheem Dar Mohalla, Shahgund, the official said.

In a separate incident in Baramulla district, Mohammad Ashraf Mir, 35, a driver, was shot dead and his wife, Saima, 32, injured at Harwan in Sopore by militants who entered into their house on Thursday night.

“Mir, who was hit by a bullet in the chest, succumbed to his injuries on Friday,” said a police spokesman.

Saima, who was shot in both the legs, was taken to Srinagar for treatment,

police said.

In southern Pulwama, militants shot at and critically wounded special police officer ( SPO) Showkat Ahmed Dar near a filling station in Rahmoo area of the district on Saturday.

Chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has condemned the killing of three civilians in Bandipore and Baramulla districts.