Police constable injured in militant attack, succumbs

Police constable injured in militant attack last year, succumbs

KNO Correspondent

Srinagar, Jun 12 (KNO): A police head constable who was injured around 11 months before in a militant attack at Lal Bazar succumbed to injuries at SKIMS Soura on Monday.

Officials told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that a head constable of Police who was injured in Lal Bazar firing incident in July last year and was admitted in SKIMS Soura has succumbed to his injuries today.

They identified him as Fayaz Ahmad Raina son of Khazar Muhammad resident Dudkul Kokernag Anantnag and said that since receiving injuries last year, he wasn’t keeping well.

He had a severe infection that has affected his kidney as well due to which he died today.

Notably, a guard of honour was given to the cop in his native area in Kokernag in which senior police officers and locals participated.

Later, hundreds of people participated in his last rites before he was buried in a local graveyard.

Notably, an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Mushtaq Ahmad was killed while the two constables, Fayaz Ahmad and Abu Bakar, were injured in militant attack in Lal Bazar Srinagar on July 12 last year—(KNO)