MUZAFFARABAD, Sept 1: Three policemen were injured on Tuesday when shots were fired by three suspicious persons who later disappeared in the nearby forests bordering Bagh and Poonch districts, police and residents said.
The accused, sporting beards and wielding automatic weapons, hidden under shawls, were spotted by the residents of Kothiyan village in dubious condition and they immediately informed the Chitra Topi police post about their presence.
When a police party, comprising head constable Idrees and constables Zahid and Rashid, reached the village, the accused fired at the police resulting in bullet injuries to them.
One of the injured was later referred to Rawalpindi, whereas the remaining two were locally hospitalised, according to police sources.
The local residents who had gathered on the scene tried to overpower the accused and although someone hit and injured one of the accused with an axe, they however managed to escape towards the dense forests.
Heavy contingents of police from both the districts had been called in to hunt down the accused hiding in the jungle till the filing of this report.
SP Bagh Shehryar Sikandar told Dawn that the accused appeared to be the locals but, he added, it was not yet clear what action they planned to carry out. http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/national/gunmen-injure-ajk-policemen-299
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