Shrine, house of leader hit, two J&K cops killed

Two policemen were killed when terrorists attacked the revered Sufi shrine of Hazrat Shekih Noor-ud-din Noorani at Charar-e-Sharief and a Hurriyat leader’s house in Kashmir Valley on Sunday.

The first attack took place in the afternoon when terrorists fired at a sentry guarding the shrine. Kultar Singh was shifted to a hospital where he died. They also snatched his riffle.

The shrine was gutted and the entire township was razed in a gunfight in 1995. Since its reconstruction, the police have set up a sentry post.