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Twin militant attacks leaves two policemen dead, one injured
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Monday, 3 March 2014
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‘Militant’
arrested after stabbing SOG man
Pulwama: Amid inputs from a possible militant attack in South Kashmir’s
Pulwama town, unidentified militants Monday killed two policemen outside Court Complex
while in another attack a militant stabbed a Special Operation Group man in
Pampore town injuring him critically.
Police sources
told Srinagar based news gathering agency CNS that police had inputs that
militants may strike in an any part of the South Kashmir’s Pulwama town and to
thwart the attempt of militants, security was beefed all around in the town.
Police, SOG and CRPF personnel had laid barricades on Srinagar-Pulwama road
near Gangoo area stopping scores of vehicles and checked the identity cards of
the passengers.
Eyewitnesses told
CNS that at around 11:45 a.m,
near Drangabal Pampore, a youth attacked an SOG man with a sharp knife and
stabbed his neck. The incident occurred when Army personnel from 50 RR, CRPF
and SOG personnel had been deployed in strength in Pampore town. Sources said
that a man using phiran took out his sharp knife and attacked the SOG man
Bhopindar Singh son of Sher Singh resident of Dhar Basoli Kathua and snatched
his service rifle when the SOG man fell down in a pool of blood. The Government
Forces immediately swung into action and chased him. Eyewitnesses said that the
Government Forces chased and overpowered him. He was detained in police station
Pampore while a police official said that the said assailant belongs to a
militant outfit and he identified him as Ishfaq Ahmed Khan son of Ghulam Nabi
resident of Hundura Tral. “He is being questioned and everything will be clear
after his interrogation,” he said.
Locals said that
Government Forces resorted to intense aerial firing soon after the incident
which created panic in the area. Traffic on Srinagar-Jammu Highway came to
grinding halt for about an hour.
Meanwhile,
Medical Superintendent SKIMS, Dr Farooq Jan told CNS that the injured SOG man
identified as Bhupinder Singh has deep stab wound on his neck and he is under
observation. “He has suffered C1, C2 and T2 which in medical terminology is
called cervical vertebra fracture in vital area. The injured policeman is so far
stable but due to critical wound we can’t predict about his survival,” he said.
Barely two hours
after this attack, militants appeared outside Court Complex Pulwama and fired
upon a police vehicle. Panic gripped in the town after continuous gunshots were
heard, while people and shopkeepers ran for cover.
Police sources
told CNS that the unidentified militants fired indiscriminately upon police
vehicle in which two policemen were critically injured. Policemen present in
and around the area and rushed the injured policemen to District Hospital
Pulwama. One of them breathed his last on way while the other died immediately
after arriving in the hospital.
The two deceased
policemen have been identified as Mukhtiyar Ahmed Wani (484PL) resident of Syed
Wari Qazigund and Farooq Ahmed Mir (70PL) resident of Vedpora Shopian. Locals
and traders alleged that some SOG personnel went berserk soon after the
militant attack and beat people to pulp, an allegation denied by police.
Sources said that
in order to nab the militants, Army personnel from 55 RR, 183 Battalion CRPF,
police and SOG personnel cordoned off adjoining areas of Court Complex. Reports
said the Dangarpora and Washbough area were also sealed to nab the militants.
Meanwhile,
Inspector General of Police Abdul Gani Mir rushed to Pulwama soon after the
incident and paid a rich tribute to the deceased policemen. Besides IGP,
several police officer’s attendant the wreath laying ceremony of the killed
policemen.
A police handout
issued to CNS said that some unknown militants fired upon a Police vehicle near
court complex which resulted in the death of two policemen idenitified as
Farooq Ahmad Mir son of Ghulam Hassan Mir resident of Vedpora Pulwama and
Mukhtar Ahmad Wani son of Ghulam Hassan Wani resident of Syed Wari Qazigund.
Immediately after incident senior officers including IGP Kashmir A.G. Mir
visited Pulwama.
A wreath laying
ceremony was held at DPL Pulwama to pay homage to the departed SPOs. Farooq
Ahmad Mir son of Ghulam Hassan Mir is survived by his aged mother and father,
02 brothers, sister, wife and a son while Mukhtar Ahmad Wani son of Ghulam
Hassan Wani is survived by his widow mother, brother, wife and an infant
daughter of two months. (CNS)
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