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Guerrillas kill three policemen in Kashmir
Srinagar, April 6
Separatist guerrillas on
Monday shot dead three policemen and left two others injured in three
attacks at different places in Jammu and Kashmir.
A police
officer said the guerrillas attacked a three-member police party at
Amshipora village in Shopian district with automatic weapons, killing
all of them on the spot.
"A police party of three had gone to
Amshipora village in connection with a crime investigation when
militants attacked them with automatic weapons," he said. "A head
constable and two constables were killed in this attack."
Senior police officers and paramilitary officials rushed to the spot.
The
Shopian attack came barely hours after the guerrillas fired at and
critically injured a police officer in Baramulla district.
In a
separate incident, militants on Monday afternoon shot at and critically
injured a former militant Rafeek Ahmed Dada outside a bank branch in
Tral town of south Kashmir in Pulwama district. The injured was shifted
to hospital in critical condition, a police officer told IANS.