An off-duty police officer was shot dead by terrorists inside his home in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The attack on Sub-Inspector Farooq Ahmad Mir took place at Samboora in Pampore area on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday, officials said on Saturday.
Mir’s bullet-riddled body was found in the paddy fields of his native village. His is the third murder of a police official in the span of a month.
He was posted as OSI in the IRP 23rd Battalion at CTC Lethpora.
Police have said that he succumbed to critical bullet injuries. “His body was found with wounds of bullets perforating his chest. We have started the investigation,” officials said.
A cop was killed in Soura and another in Eidgah areas of Srinagar by militants suspected to be associated with Lashkar-e-Taiba. One of the militants involved in the killing was gunned down by security forces in an encounter recently.
The killing of SI Mir once again raises the spectre of the targeted killings in Kashmir. In the last few months, militants have killed a Kashmiri Pandit employee, a teacher belonging to Jammu and a banker from Rajasthan besides labourers from Indian plains.
Police said they have launched investigations into the killing of Mir and prima facie said he was shot from a pistol by terrorists.
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