Three police officers were killed and one left injured on Tuesday, 11 December, after six militants belonging to Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed burst into the guard room of an outpost in Shopian district, Jammu and Kashmir, and started firing indiscriminately.
The deceased persons were identified as Abdul Majid, Manzoor Ahmed and Mohammed Amin. The fourth police officer was rushed to a hospital, where his condition was stated to be critical, the officials said.
Incidentally, Shopian went to polls on 11 December, along with eight other districts reported ANI.
According to PTI, the four policemen were sitting in a pre-fabricated room outside the pocket that houses six Kashmiri pandit families and were guarding the minority settlement. At the time of the incident, only one family was present there.
A senior police official said that the six Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists were led by former Special Police Officer Adil Bashir, who deserted in October and decamped eight weapons from a PDP legislator.
Quoting eyewitnesses, the police officer said militants fired indiscriminately, killing the three policemen on the spot and critically injuring one. The terrorists fled with Three Self Loading Rifles (SLRs) of the policemen,
The official said that an intercept had been received in which it was clear that Jaish-e-Mohammed, a banned terrorist organisation, was behind the barbaric act.
According to The Asian Age, the Army and J&K police's counterinsurgency Special Operations Group (SOG), with central armed forces, have launched a search operation in a vast area around the scene of occurrence.
This encounter comes just days after three terrorists were killed and five security personnel were injured in Srinagar’s Mujgund on Saturday, 8 December.
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