Just in: Militants fire at a police guard deployed at the Jammu and Kashmir Bank branch in Kachdoora, Shopian. The guard has been critically injured. Area cordoned off and a search operation has been launched.


Shopian has seen frequent terror attacks. On April 26, an army major, a trooper and three militants were killed in a nearly 24-hour-long gunfight, in south Kashmirs Shopian district.


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