2 cops among 3 killed in mishaps

Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 1: Three persons including two policemen were killed and seven others injured in two separate road accidents in Valley.
A police spokesman said that an Alto car bearing registration number JK09A-7899 driven by Mudasir Tariq Mir skidded off the road and fell in a Nallah near Ziyarat Sharief TP in Kralpora area of Kupwara district, resulting in on spot death of two commuters who were identified as police head constable Habibullah Lone and Ruqaiya Begum and injuries to four persons namely Asmat Majeed, her minor son Wamiq Ahmad Lone, minor girl Zohra Shafiq and driver of the vehicle.
The injured persons have been shifted to Sub District Hospital Kralpora for treatment, the spokesman said, adding that police have registered a case in this regard. The police spokesman said that a Ritz car bearing registration number JK01R-1390 driven by Irshad Shafi Kuchay collided with an Alto K-10 bearing registration number JK01AB-1496 driven by Mohammad Farooq, who was police constable, at National Highway near Barsoo in Awantipora area of Pulwama district.
“Both the drivers and two other persons boarding the Ritz car were injured in this accident. All the injured were shifted to hospital for treatment where doctors declared Constable Mohammad Farooq Raina as brought dead. Police have registered a case in this regard,” he said.