Srinagar: Three policemen, two of them special police officers, were kidnapped on Thursday night and killed hours later in south Kashmir’s Shopian, considered the hotbed of militancy in the state.
A fourth person, brother of a policeman, who had also been abducted was, however, released on Friday morning.
The kidnappings took place in Kapran village. No militant group has yet claimed responsibility.
But terror group, Hizbul Mujahideen, had recently delivered what it had called was the “final warning” to the special police officers, or SPOs, to quit by September 19.