October 16
At least 39 policemen have been killed so far in the Kashmir Valley, the Jammu Kashmir (J&K) police said.
On Friday evening, a group of militants barged into the residence of policeman Javed Ahmad Lone in Sopore, North Kashmir and shot him at point-blank range, while his wife and children were present in the house. 37-year-old Lone succumbed to his injuries in a nearby hospital. He was on leave at the time of the attack.
On September 21, militants abducted and killed three policemen including two Special Police Officers (SPOs) in the militancy-riddled Shopian district of south Kashmir.
The sources mentioned above said, of those killed, 30 were policemen while nine were Special Police Officers (SPOs).
So far, about a dozen policemen have been killed while they were on leave in south Kashmir, they added. In a major attack, militants ambushed a police vehicle at Arhama village of Shopian district on August 29, killing four policemen and looting their weapons.