Two CRPF personnel, police constable wounded in Srinagar

Srinagar, Aug 17 (UNI) Militants attacked and critically wounded two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and a police constable in the summer capital of the Jammu and Kashmir today.

Official sources said militants shot at and critically wounded two CRPF pesonnel from point blank range with a pistol in the busy koker bazar.

They were rushed to hospital where their condition was stated to be very critical.

Later, security forces immediately cordoned off the entire Koker Bazar and adjoining areas and launched a search operation to nab the militants responsible for the attack.

Security forces were searching the area with the help of dog squad and shopkeepers and other pedestrains were being frisked and their identity cards properly checked.

About an hour later, militants struck at Kanikadal in the old city and shot at and wounded a police constable Fayaz Ahmad of police station Shaheedgunj.

The injured constable was immediately rushed to hospital with a bullet wound in the neck.

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