Srinagar:
Two days before the Independence Day, another militant attack took place in south Kashmir's Pulwama district, which claimed three lives. A police vehicle was ambushed in Pampore area, on the Srinagar-Jammu highway. This was the second attack on security forces in as many days.
Around 7.45 pm, the militants had opened fire on the vehicle of a deputy superintendent of police. Two of the deceased were policemen, another a civilian, whose identity is yet to be established.
On August 12, eight BSF personnel, one of them an officer, were injured when militants attacked their convoy at Pampore.
No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack.