[Reader-list] Terrorists attack police post (Police Picket was for protection of minority Kashmiri Pandits)

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

Militants attack police post in Kashmir, loot weapons*PTI
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 16:00 IST*

*Srinagar: *Militants stormed a police post set up for protection of a
minority community and looted five rifles in Pulwama district of south
Kashmi

A group of heavily armed militants stormed the police post at Midoora in
Tral belt, 40 km from here, last night and overpowered the policemen,
official sources said today.

They said the ultras ran away with five rifles - three Insas and two SLRs --
along with some ammunition.

Two policemen present at the time of the attack were left unharmed, they
said. Three other policemen posted at the picket had reportedly gone home
unauthorisedly.

Soon after the incident, senior police officers rushed to the scene and a
massive hunt was launched to nab the militants and recover the looted
weapons, the sources said.

"All five policemen have been placed under suspension and a departmental
inquiry ordered," the sources said.

This is the first such incident in the last several years in the valley.

The police picket in Midoora was established over a decade ago for
protection of Kashmiri Pandits living in the village, the sources said.