{"id":53612,"date":"2023-12-24T04:43:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T04:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/retired-sp-shot-dead-by-militants-during-azan-in-baramulla-police\/"},"modified":"2023-12-24T04:43:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T04:43:40","slug":"retired-sp-shot-dead-by-militants-during-azan-in-baramulla-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=53612","title":{"rendered":"Retired SP shot dead by Militants during Azan in Baramulla: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Srinagar, Dec 24:<\/strong><\/em> Militants on Sunday morning shot dead a retired police officer in Gantmulla area of north Kashmir\u2019s Baramulla district, police said.<\/p>\n

In a post on X, Kashmir zone police, as per the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said that the retired superintendent of police was shot dead while giving a prayer call (Azan) in a mosque. Police said that area has been cordoned off, while further details are awaited.<\/p>\n

\u201cTerrorists fired upon Shri Mohd Shafi, a retired police officer at Gantmulla, Sheeri #Baramulla, while praying Azan in the mosque and succumbed to injuries. Area has been #cordoned off. Further details awaited,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n

The slain was 72 -years- old and is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter. A pall of gloom descended on entire Gantumulla village when the news of killing of Shafi spread on the area with people thronging his house to mourn the killing\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n

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