The area has been cordoned off for searches. File photo
Tribune News Services
Srinagar, February 25
A group of militants on Sunday attacked a police post outside the revered Chrar-e-Sharif shrine in central Kashmir’s Budgam district, killing a policeman, an official said.
The militants fired upon a police post near the shrine of Sufi saint Sheikh Noor-ud-Din Noorani in the Chrar-e-Sharif area this afternoon, the official said.
A policeman, Kultar Singh, sustained injuries in the firing and was shifted to a hospital where he succumbed to injuries, the official added.
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