Guerrillas kill retired police officer in Kashmir

5 Dariya News (Rouf Pampori)

Kulgam 15-Jul-2015

Separatist guerrillas shot dead a senior retired police officer in Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Wednesday."Motorcycle borne militants fired several shots at Bashir Ahmad Dar, retired deputy superintendent of police," a police officer told IANS.At the time of the incident late Tuesday, Dar was exiting from a mosque where he had gone to offer 'Taravi' (late night Ramadan prayers) in Ashmujee village of Kulgam district.He was shifted to a Srinagar hospital where he died.Searches were mounted in the village after the attack, but nobody has been arrested or identified so far as the assailants reportedly fled from the place.