A police officer said militants fired indiscriminately at the CRPF patrol near a bus stand. "The three personnel were injured and later succumbed in a local hospital,'' the officer said. "The woman pedestrian, in her fifties, died on way to the hospital.''
Sources said Al-Badr outfit has claimed responsibility for the attack. "Two AK-47 rifles of the slain personnel are also missing,'' a source said.
Security forces cordoned off the area to nab the attackers but no one was arrested till last reports came in.
Meanwhile, army averted a major tragedy by defusing five landmines at Tikipora in north Kashmir's Kupwara district. "The landmines were recovered after Army's 28 Rashtriya Rifles were tipped off that terrorists had planted them to target the forces,'' said SHO Sajjad Ahmad.
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