SRINAGAR: Suspected militants gunned down on Monday three Indian police personnel in separate attacks in Srinagar, the main city in India-held Kashmir.
Deadly attacks on security forces are relatively common in the disputed Himalayan region, but Srinagar has been largely free from such incidents in recent years.
Police said two officers were shot dead while patrolling in the old partof the city. A third was attacked in a business district less than an hour later.
`Three cops were killed in two different militant attacks,` senior officer Ghulam Hassan Bhat said.
Hizbul Mujahideen militant group claimed the attacks, but there was no official confirmation of the claim.
Authorities said they were tightening security in already heavily militarisedSrinagar in the wake of the attacks.
The last major assault on security forces in Srinagar was in June 2013, when suspected militants attacked an army convoy and killed eight soldiers the day before a visit by then prime minister Manmohan Singh.
Last year the city saw a series of grenade attacks on a telecommunications company offices and installations belonging to paramilitary troops.
