Suspected militants kill two policemen in Indian Kashmir

Earlier, police officer was stabbed, critically injured by an unknown assailant who was arrested as he tried to flee.

SRINAGAR: Suspected militants killed two police outside a court in Indian Kashmir on Monday, hours after another officer was stabbed in a separate incident in the region, police said.

"Two policemen died in the shooting by militants on a truck outside the court complex," police superintendent Tejinder Singh told AFP.

The firing took place in Pulwama town, 30 kilometres south of the region's main city of Srinagar, as a group of police arrived to deliver food to colleagues on duty at the court, a police officer said.

Earlier, a police officer was stabbed and critically injured in a marketplace in the nearby town of Pampore by an unidentified assailant who was overpowered and arrested as he tried to flee.

"He stabbed the policeman in the neck and tried to snatch his weapon. He is a close relative of an active Hizbul Mujahideen member," another police officer Pervez Ahmed said.

Last week Indian security forces killed six suspected rebels in the remote frontier area of Kupwara near the Line of Control (LoC).

The killings triggered protests in the area as locals suspected the slain rebels to be unknown civilians. But police later claimed that investigations have established that all six were from Azad Kashmir who had crossed the LoC last summer.