Seven killed in raid on bank van in Kashmir

SRINAGAR: Seven people including five policemen were killed on Monday when suspected militants attacked a bank van carrying cash in Kashmir, police said.

“All the seven in the van, five policemen and two bank employees, were killed,” director general of police S P Vaid said.

The van was returning to a bank in the village of Pumbai in Kulgam district, around 70 kilometres south of the main city of Srinagar, when it came under fire, Vaid said.

Another police officer attackers made off with weapons.

Suspected militants in months have targeted banks the restive Kashmir valley, several armed groups have fighting for decades.

Last week police said they foiled a said cash the and recent across where been bank raid in the southern district of Anantnag by two men who opened fire on paramilitary guards.

One of the attackers was arrested while another managed to escape. SOLDIERS BODIES MUTILATED

In another development, the Pakistan Army killed two Indian soldiers in unprovoked firing and mutilated their bodies near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian Army said.

The “despicable act” occurred in the Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch border district, the Northern Command said, and warned of “appropriate response” to “an unsoldierly act by the Pakistan Army”.

The dead soldiers included an army man and a BSF Head Constable, Defence Ministry sources said.