In one more incident of focused killing in Jammu and Kashmir, the physique of an off-duty police officer was discovered within the paddy fields close to his residence in Pulwama after militants opened hearth on him, officers said on Saturday.
According to the assertion, Sub-Inspector Farooq Ahmad Mir had left for residence on Friday and was working in his paddy fields when militants opened hearth on him utilizing a pistol.
“Dead body of Farooq Ah Mir of Samboora Si(M) posted in IRP 23 BN was found in paddy fields near his home. Preliminary investigation reveals that he had left his home for work in his paddy fields yesterday in the evening, where he was shot dead by terrorists using a pistol,” Kashmir Zone Police wrote on Twitter.
This is the ninth time a cop has been killed in focused assaults by militants within the valley up to now one 12 months, and the seventh such occasion when an off-duty police officer was killed.
Last month, militants killed a Jammu and Kashmir constable exterior his home whereas he was reportedly taking his 9-year-old daughter to tuition class. While the officer died, the daughter survived after sustaining a bullet harm.
Apart from law enforcement officials, a number of civilians, primarily from the Kashmiri Pandit neighborhood, have been shot useless by militants in the previous couple of months in a bid to derail the J&Okay administration’s push to convey again peace within the valley for the reason that abrogation of the Article 370 in 2019. After the killing of 35-year-old Rahul Bhat in Chadoora city’s Tehsil workplace, huge protests broke out throughout the Union Territory with a number of Kashmiri Pandits threatening to resign from their authorities posts if sufficient safety was not supplied to them by the native administration. Days after the protests, a Kashmiri lady high-school instructor was shot useless and a financial institution worker from Rajasthan was killed contained in the financial institution.
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