Tension grips West Burdwan after sharecropper’s murder
Tensions have escalated in the Kanchanpur area under Kanksha Police Station, West Burdwan District, following the discovery of the body of a 46-year-old sharecropper, Chandrasekhar Mondal.
Militants attacked a police party outside Rajpora police station in the southern part of Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday.
“Militants fired upon a naka party of police near Police Station Rajpora, resulting in injuries to two of our personnel,” deputy inspector general (DIG) of police S P Pan
The two injured policemen have been shifted to hospital and the area has been cordoned off for searches, a police officer said.
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The area has been cordoned off and a search for the attackers has been launched, the DIG said. He said it was not an attack on the police station.
The injured police personnel are identified as constables Abdul Salam and Munir Ahmad.
(With agency inputs)
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