In both cases, terrorists decamped with the service rifle of the deceased.
Jammu and Kashmir police chief S P Vaid dubbed the incidents as "proxy war" even as
police teams prepared to nab the assailants.
The first attack took place near the revered Chrar-e-Shareef shrine in Budgam district of central Kashmir, a police spokesman said.
Constable Kultar Singh, who was guarding the shrine of Sufi saint Sheikh Noor-ud-Din Noorani this afternoon, was attacked and injured by militants who fled with his service rifle. Singh succumbed to injuries at the Army's 92 Base Hospital here, a police spokesperson said.
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The militants decamped with Yatoo's service rifle, the spokesman said, adding the injured policeman succumbed to injuries at the SKIMS hospital.
Hurriyat leader Qureshi was injured when unidentified gunmen attacked him near his Soura residence in December 2009, according to officials.
The spokesman said cases in both the incidents were registered and investigation set in motion.
Meanwhile, Director General of Police (DGP) S P Vaid asked police personnel to be careful, saying they were fighting a proxy war in the state.
We have lost another precious life when Constable Farooq Ahmad was martyred today in Srinagar. Be more careful boys, its the proxy war that we are fighting in Jammu & Kashmir, he added in another tweet.
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