A former special police officer (SPO) was killed by suspected militants on Friday, 23 November, after they kidnapped him in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
The bullet-riddled body of former SPO Basharat Ahmad Wagay was recovered hours after he was kidnapped, a police official said. Besides the former SPO, two other persons were also kidnapped by unidentified gunmen.
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and NC leader Omar Abdullah, condoled wagay’s killing, while calling it a “tragic death” in the valley’s “never-ending cycle of violence.”
The police official said the two other kidnapped persons, Zahid Ahmad Wagay and Reyaz Ahmad Wagay, were later released by the suspected militants.
Militants killed two persons – one shot dead and another terminated in ISIS-style execution – in South Kashmir last week on the charge of being informers of security forces.
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