Slain policeman given a tearful adieu in J-K's Poonch

Several people today bid a tearful adieu to a policeman who was killed in an encounter with terrorists at his home town in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district.
Constable Zahir Abbas was killed in the gunfight in Mir Mohalla village of north Kashmir's Bandipora district yesterday.
He is survived by his wife, two minor sons and a daughter, who is the youngest among the siblings.
District Development Commissioner Tariq Ahmad Zargar and Senior Superintendent of Police Rajiv Pandey laid wreaths on his body and participated in the funeral prayers in Abbas's village Kallar Mohra in Mendhar.
Thousands of people paid tributes to the slain policeman soon after his body reached his home around noon.

He was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in the village, officials said.