Militants attack politician's home, decamp with rifles

Militants attacked the guard post at the residence of a political leader in Kulgam district of Kashmir and decamped with rifles of policemen after disarming them, police said yesterday

Srinagar: Militants attacked the guard post at the residence of a political leader in Kulgam district of Kashmir and decamped with rifles of policemen after disarming them, police said yesterday.

The ultras barged into the residential compound of Abdul Rashid Khanday, who was earlier associated with National Conference, at Begom in Kulgam late Wednesday night and took away four service rifles of the cops posted on guard duty of the political leader, a police official said.

Earlier, police had said that Khanday is a block president of National Conference, but a spokesman said he had severed ties with the party in 2002. The official said the militants decamped with two INSAS rifles, one SLR rifle and a 303 rifle. A departmental inquiry has been set up to probe the incident, security forces have alerted to track the militants, he said.

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