A Central Reserve Police Force officer was killed and his rifle snatched in an attack by militants on security forces at Kaisermulla in Budgam district on Thursday, police said, according to PTI.
The militants fired upon NC Badoley, assistant sub inspector of the CRPF of 117 battalion, leaving him injured, a police official said. Bodley was taken to Army’s 92 base hospital at Badami Bagh in Srinagar, where he succumbed to his injuries, the official added.
The area has been cordoned off and a search operation is underway to nab the assailants.
On August 30, three militants and a police officer were killed in a gunfight in the Pantha Chowk area of Srinagar district in Jammu and Kashmir.
A day before that, three suspected militants and one soldier were killed in a gunfight in Zadoora area of Pulwama district. The police had said that incriminating materials such as arms and…