Frequency of attacks on security personnel in J&K worrying: Omar Abdullah

Two police personnel were killed by militants today in poll-bound Anantnag

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah today said the frequency with which security forces personnel were getting killed in militant attacks in the state was both "tragic and worrying".

"The regularity with which we have to tweet condolences for martyred security force personnel in J&K these days is both tragic & worrying," Omar wrote on Twitter.

Omar, who is the working president of the Opposition National Conference, said that the government should be alarmed by the fact that two attacks have taken place along the highway in south Kashmir since yesterday.

"The realisation that both these attacks took place on the major highways of South Kashmir should have the powers that be sitting up in alarm," he said on Twitter.

"(Three) 3 BSF (Border Security Force) personnel yesterday and (two) 2 J&K police persons today. Once again my heartfelt condolences to the families of the deceased," he added.

Two police personnel were today killed by militants in poll-bound Anantnag from where Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is contesting.

The attack comes less than 24 hours after an ambush by militants of the banned Hizbul Mujahideen on a BSF convoy, in neighbouring Goriwan area at Bijbehara, killed three BSF personnel.