Suspected Kashmiri militants killed two Indian Reserve Police personnel in a hit-and-run attack in Handwara town of Jammu and Kashmir’s frontier Kupwara district on Saturday, the first such incident in Handwara in five years.
Officials said the policemen, in their mid-twenties, were standing guard at the bus terminus when masked gunmen abroad a red Maruti Omni struck. The vehicle then sped away.
The security forces had launched a massive manhunt when reports last came in.
[Reports said they were slain around the time the Army’s 15 (Chinar) Corps GOC, Lt. Gen. Om Praka-sh, and Brigadier A. Arun of the 7th Sector of Rash-triya Rifles were at a function at “Environment Ha-ll”, about 250 yards from the scene of the shooting].
Azad Chand and Santosh Kumar, of the IRP’s 13th and 16th Battalions, respectively, were rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared them brought dead. The police blamed separatist militants but none of the outfits active have so far admitted responsibility.