A policeman was killed late on Saturday after a grenade was lobbed at a patrol in Jammu & Kashmir’s Kulgam district in the latest in a series of attacks in the run-up to Independence Day celebrations.
Police said that Tahir Khan was killed hours after a sub-inspector was wounded in an attack on a Central Reserve Police Force bunker in Srinagar.
On Thursday, four soldiers, including a junior commissioner officer, were killed and two injured after terrorists attempted to storm an army camp in the Rajouri district.
Khan, who was from Poonch’s Mendhar and joined the Jammu & Kashmir Police in 2019, succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Anantnag
Another officer was injured in firing on police personnel near Padshahi Bagh area of Bijbehara in Anantnag on Friday. On Thursday, Mohammad Amrez, a migrant worker from Madhepura in Bihar, was shot dead in the Bandipora district.