J&K: Terrorists kill 2 cops in attacks on police posts

Srinagar, February 25

Two policemen were shot dead by militants on Sunday in two separate attacks on police posts, one near the revered Chrar-e-Shareef shrine and another outside the residence of a Hurriyat leader, in the Kashmir Valley, officials said.

A group of militants fired upon a police post near the shrine of Sufi saint Sheikh Noor-ud-Din Noorani in the Chrar-e-Shareef area in Budgam district this afternoon, an official said.

A policeman, Kultar Singh, suffered injuries. Singh was shifted to a hospital where he succumbed to injuries, the official added.

In the second incident, another policeman, Farooq Ahmed, was killed when militants attacked a police post set up to protect the residence of Hurriyat leader Fazal Haq Qureshi, in Soura area of the summer capital of the state,  a police official said.

Qureshi was injured in a militant attack in December 2009, he added.   

The area has been cordoned off and a hunt is on to nab the assailants, the officials said. — PTI