The Daily Telegraph

Policeman lynched by mob in Indian Kashmir

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Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir said yesterday that one of their officers had been beaten to death by a crowd outside the main mosque in the region’s capital of Srinagar.

Witnesses said worshipper­s had spotted the policeman, Mohammed Ayub Pandit, at the mosque in plaincloth­es, taking photograph­s of people leaving shortly after midnight.

When they confronted him, a brawl broke out and Ayub fired his gun, wounding three people before the crowd began attacking him.

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