Police staffer reportedly kidnapped in Kashmir
Srinagar, July 28 (IBNS): A police staffer has been kidnapped by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, NDTV quoted the police as saying on Saturday.
This is the latest in the string of incidents of abduction of policemen and army jawans in the valley, going through prolonged violence and unrest, fanned by militants.
State police chief SP Vaid said they are verifying reports of the kidnapping, which happened a few days after a police constable was kidnapped and killed in Kulgam.
NDTV quoted the relatives of the special police officer or SPO, who has been working as a cook, said he has gone to his aunt's house.
Jammu and Kashmir has seen several kidnappings of people in the security forces in recent times.
After the Kulgam kidnapping and murder of a police constable who had come home on leave from his training centre in Jammu, the army had shot dead three terrorists within 12 hours.
Earlier this month, police constable Javed Ahmad Dar was kidnapped from his village in Shopian and killed by terrorists.
Last month, army jawan Aurangzeb was kidnapped and killed in Pulwama when he was going home for Eid.
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