Policeman killed, another injured in militant attack in Kashmir

Srinagar: One policeman was killed, another policeman wounded as was a civilian in a militant attack at a police picket in Jammu and Kashmir’s southern Shopian district on Friday.

Police said militants tried to snatch service weapons from the cops at a police post set up to provide security to a cluster of houses of minority Kashmiri Pandits at Jamnagri. The police resisted and militants reacted by opening fire, killing Nazir Ahmed and wounding Zahoor Ahmed.