TERRORISTS DISFIGURE COPS’ FACES
Srinagar, June 16: The militants who ambushed a police party at Achabal in Anantnag district of South Kashmir on Friday disfigured the faces of the six cops slain in the attack before walking away with their weapons. Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-eTayyaba is believed to be behind the ambush, a senior police official said.
Six Jammu and Kashmir policemen were killed in a militant ambush in southern Anantnag district on Friday evening.
The militants who ambushed a police party disfigured the faces of the six cops slain in the attack before walking away with their weapons, police said.
The police sources here said that the militants targeted a police party in Acchabal area of Anantnag, about 70-km south of here with gunfire and grenades.
Among the slain policemen was Feroz Dar, a Station House Officer, the sources said.
Lashkar-e-Tayyaba has claimed responsibility for carrying out the attack. Its spokesperson Dr Abdullah Ghaznavi, in a statement to a news agency, said six policemen were killed in the attack carried out by them at Tajwah in Achabal. In view of heightening tensions and the shutdown call issued by an alliance of key separatist leaders to mourn and protest the civilian killings, the authorities have decided to impose curfew or cur- few-like restrictions in some Valley areas including central Srinagar on Saturday.
On Thursday evening, two J&K policemen Shabir Ahmed Dar and Shahzad Dilawar Sofi were killed when targeted with gunfire by militants in Bogund village of southern Kulgam district and Hyderpora locality of central Budgam district, respectively.