Pulwama fidayeen attack: JK police pays tributes to slain cops

The Jammu and Kashmir police today paid floral tributes to its four personnel who were killed in a pre-dawn fidayeen attack by militants on a district police complex in south Kashmir's Pulwama district.
Director General of Police S P Vaid led police and other security forces officers in paying homage and last respects to the martyred police personnel and a nursing orderly at the District Police Lines (DPL) in Awantipora today, a police spokesman said here.
He said constable Imtiyaz Ahmad, special police officers (SPOs) Mohammad Yousuf Hajam and Rafiq Ahmad Hajam and nursing orderly Amarjeet Singh gave supreme sacrifice of their lives in the encounter at the DPL in Pulwama.

Besides Vaid, General Officer Commanding (GOC) of victor force of the Army Major General B S Raju, commanding officer 130 Bn CRPF Puneet Kholdar and other senior officers of the police also paid tributes to the slain cops, the spokesman said.
Eight security personnel, including four CRPF men, were killed when militants carried out the suicide attack on the district police complex. Three terrorists were also killed in the gun battle.