SRINAGAR: Displaying unprecedented savagery and viciousness, Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists mangled the faces of six policemen, including one officer riddling their faces with bullets at Thajiwara village in Achabal town of Anantnag district on Friday.The attack took place within hours of the killing of a top LeT militant, Junaid Mattoo, elsewhere in Anantnag district. Heavily armed terrorists attacked a police party and butchered the cops, including the SHO of Achabal police station, Feroz Ahmad Dar.The policemen were found with their faces mutilated beyond recognition as the terrorists fired at them even after they were dead, all over the bodies, including their faces. A senior police officer said this was the first such terror attack on the security forces since the advent of militancy in Kashmir in 1990.LeT claimed responsibility for the killings. Authorities suspended mobile internet services in the Valley to prevent mobilisation of stonepelters and mobs. "Friday's killing and mutilation of policemen has had a demoralising effect on cops," an officer who did not want to be named told TOI late on Friday.

Source: Times of India June 16, 2017 18:56 UTC