Militants gun down cop outside Chrar-e-Sharif shrine in Budgam

Tribune News Services

Srinagar, February 25

A group of militants on Sunday attacked a police post outside the revered Chrar-e-Sharif shrine in central Kashmir’s Budgam district, killing a policeman, an official said.

The militants fired upon a police post near the shrine of Sufi saint Sheikh Noor-ud-Din Noorani in the Chrar-e-Sharif area this afternoon, the official said.

A policeman, Kultar Singh, sustained injuries in the firing and was shifted to a hospital where he succumbed to injuries, the official added.