Feroz Ahmed Dar. File photo
Majid Jahangir
Tribune News Service
Srinagar, June 16
A Station House Officer was among six policemen killed in an ambush by militants in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Friday evening.
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The officer was identified as Feroz Ahmed Dar.
Police sources said that militants ambushed a police party led by a Station House Officer, Achabal, at Thajiwara Achabal in Anantnag. The ambush also left five policemen critically wounded.
Read: Two civilians killed in clashes at Kulgam encounter site
The policemen were travelling in a non-bullet-proof vehicle
“The six cops, including SHO, later succumbed to their injuries on way to hospital,” sources said.
The ambush took place at a time when an anti-militancy operation was underway in Kulgam district.
The Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) later claimed the attack.
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