The assault on a police transport here that killed three cops was pre-arranged as the equipped police group was getting back to camp at same time it normally carried out in the wake of performing routine responsibilities, a senior police official said on Tuesday.
Investigator General of Police (Kashmir) Vijay Kumar was addressing journalists at the wreath-laying service for one of the killed police officers.
"The transport conveying 25 police officers was getting back to the camp, according to schedule, when three fear mongers of Jaish-e-Mohammad started shooting at the vehicle," he said.
"This was an arranged assault. They probably led recce and seen that the transport is returning each day in daily schedule in the wake of getting off obligation," the official said.
Three cops, ASI Ghulam Hassan and Constables Shafeeq Ali and Rameez Baba, passed on of wounds supported in the assault, while 11 others were going through treatment.
Kumar said that while one of the attackers was a neighborhood, two others were unfamiliar psychological oppressors. "We have parcel of contributions on the gathering. We will kill this gathering very soon," he said.
The IGP praised the police faculty, saying they fought back and guaranteed that the psychological oppressors didn't prevail with regards to grabbing the weapons.
"One of the psychological militants was harmed in the retaliatory fire and blood trail could be seen for very some distance... They got away towards Khrew. We are dealing with it, " he added.
Kumar said the psychological militants exploited dimness as the street prompting the police camp at Zewan was not sufficiently bright and the street opening party of safety powers had left for the afternoon.
"We are going to all prudent lengths ,remembering establishment of lights for the street," he added.
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