4 cops martyred in JeM blast in Sopore
Four policemen, including an assistant sub-inspector, were killed and two others injured in a powerful bomb blast that ripped through a market place in north Kashmir's Sopore town on Saturday, police said.
So far no militant group has claimed the responsibility for the attack. Six or seven shops have suffered damage as well", he said, adding "it was the first (IED) blast since 2015.
The militants detonated the remote-controlled IED when the policemen reached the scene while doing their rounds, the police officials said.
Inspector General of Police (Kashmir range) Munir Khan said the IED had been planted in a shop and triggered off when police personnel on duty came closer to it. In a statement issued to news agency GNS, Jaish-e-Mohammad spokesperson claimed that they have attacked the forces party in Sopore.
The cops belonged to the 3rd Battalion of Indian Reserve Police (IRP).
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ASI Irshad Ahmad is survived by aged mother about 72 years old, wife, two sons Nadeem Irshad about 19 years old, Sahil Irshad about 10 years old, two daughters Fiza Irshad about 16 years old, and Toiba Bano about 13 years old.
Constable Mohammad Amin leaves behind an aged mother, wife, four-year-old son Tajam-ul-Islam, a brother and three sisters, while constable Parvaiz Ahmad is survived by an elderly father, wife, three-year-old son Mohammad Noman, an unmarried sister and three brothers, the spokesman said.
Five CRPF men were killed on 31 December when heavily armed terrorists carried out a suicide attack on a camp of the paramilitary force in Pulwama in south Kashmir.
Meanwhile, programmes planned by the town's traders' federation, civil society and other organisations to mark the 25th anniversary of Sopore massacre were cancelled in the wake of the IED attack.
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