Militants kill cop outside J&K hospital; flee away with terrorist
Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists on Tuesday staged a daring attack outside a hospital in Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital to free a Pakistani terrorist from custody, killing a policeman and critically injuring another, police said.
Naveed Jutt, the LeT terrorist from Pakistan who was caught in Kulgam in south Kashmir in 2014, managed to escape with the assailants, police officials said.
The ultras opened fire on the police party accompanying Jutt, alias Abu Hanzala, outside the hospital in Kaka Sarai area of the city, police said. The slain cop has been identified as Head-Constable Mushtaq Ahmed.
The police sources said that the Pakistani national Naveed Jutt alias Abu Hazulla who was lodged in Srinagar Central Jail was along with five other prisoners taken to the hospital for medical check-up on the advice of the jail authorities. Naveed was caught in Kulgam in south Kashmir in 2014.
