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India: Indian police officers killed in Kashmir rebel attack
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SRINAGAR, 14 December 2021, (TON): Officials said “two police officers have been killed as suspected rebels ambushed a police bus in Indian-administered Kashmir, while about a dozen others were wounded.”
One officer said “shortly after darkness fell, attackers sprayed the bus transporting an unknown number of personnel from the police headquarters in a high-security area of the region’s main city Srinagar with automatic weapons fire.”
A police officer, who was not authorised to speak to journalists, told media agency on condition of anonymity “at least 12 other policemen were injured in the attack, a few of them are in a critical condition.”
The area was sealed off as reinforcements searched for the assailants.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his condolences and “sought details” of the attack, his office said on Twitter.
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