Guerrillas loot weapons from Kashmir security picket

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Srinagar, May 25, 2012, (IANS)
Suspected guerrillas snatched and escaped with four rifles from a security picket in south Kashmir Pulwama district, police said.

According to police, the attacking guerrillas snatched three self-loading rifles (SLR) and one INSAS rifle from a security picket late Thursday at Arigam village of south Kashmir's Pulwama district, about 28 km from here.

"The security picket had been set up to guard the Kashmiri Pandit families living in the village. Following the incident, the guards at the picket have been suspended and arrested for interrogation," a senior police officer said here.

Guerrillas loot weapons from Kashmir security picket

 

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Suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba militants disarmed two policemen guarding a minority village in Tral area of Pulwama district and decamped with four service rifles of the cops, official sources said today.

Five to six militants descended on the minority protection picket at Arigam in Tral area, 35 kms from here, at around 10.30 pm last night, the sources said.

They said the ultras overpowered the two cops present inside the picket and snatched three SLR rifles and one INSAS rifle along with eight magazines and one radio set from them before fleeing from the place.

The sources said four policemen were posted on duty at the picket but only two were present at the time of the incident.

An alert has been sounded across the south Kashmir range and an operation has been launched to trace the militants, the sources said, adding fresh deployment has been carried out at the Sikh village for the protection of the inhabitants.

This is second incident of weapon snatching in south Kashmir this month.

On May 4, militants had decamped with service rifles of four cops posted on guard duty at a village inhabited by Kashmiri Pandits in Shopian district.
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