SRINAGAR: Suspected militants killed two policemen outside a court in India-held Kashmir on Monday, hours after another officer was stabbed in a separate incident in the restive region, police said.

“Two policemen died in the shooting by militants on a truck outside the court complex,” police superintendent Tejinder Singh said.

The firing took place in Pulwama town, 30km south of Srinagar, as a group of policemen arrived to deliver food to colleagues on duty at the court, a police officer said.

Earlier, a police officer was stabbed and critically injured in a marketplace in the nearby town of Pampore by an unknown assailant who was overpowered and arrested as he tried to flee.

“He stabbed the policeman in the neck and tried to snatch his weapon. He is a close relative of an active Hizbul Mujahideen militant,” another police officer Pervez Ahmed said.—AFP