Militants kill 6 policemen in Kashmir's Anantnag, LeT claims responsibility

Six policemen, including an officer, were killed after LeT militants ambushed a police party in south Kashmir's Anantnag district today.

Official sources told  that late in the afternoon militants opened indiscriminate firing upon a police jeep near Thajiwara Achabal area resulting in fatal injuries to all occupants.

All the six injured were shifted to hospital where doctors declared them dead.

A Station House Officer identified as sub-inspector Firoz Dar, a resident of Pulwama, was



also among the killed. The other martyred include a driver and four other policemen who were on a routine round in their jeep.

Later on, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) sent a mail to India Today office and took responsibility of the terror attack.

The attack comes in the wake of an encounter with security forces in Anantnag district in which LeT commander Junaid Mattoo and his accomplice Muzamil were killed. Sources said today's attack was a revenge attack to retaliate against security forces.