NEW DELHI: Two missing special police officers (SPOs) were found dead in Jammu and Kashmir‘s Kishtwar district on Thursday, officials told news agency PTI.Their bodies were found with multiple bullet wounds.The slain personnel were identified as Babi Chand (57) and Rashpal Kumar (45). Both were part of the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the local police and were posted at Kiyar village in Dachhan.The two SPOs had gone missing on Wednesday while travelling from their camp to an Army post at Dharna-Marwah, officials said.Their service weapons were also missing, raising suspicion of a possible militant angle, they added.According to officials, the two personnel had left for patrol duty earlier in the day. Police teams launched a search operation after they failed to return.Speaking to news agency ANI, Kishtwar MLA Shagun Parihar expressed grief over the killing of the two SPOs and said their bodies were recovered at around 8am and 9am, respectively.
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“Regarding the incident in which two SPOs (Special Police Officers) were reportedly killed — what are your thoughts? It is a truly tragic incident. Two of our SPOs from the southern region have been killed. They had gone missing last night, and their bodies were recovered this morning — one around 8am and the other around 9am. It is deeply saddening,” Parihar said.Alleging Pakistan’s involvement in conspiracies against the region, the MLA urged Union home minister Amit Shah to ensure that those responsible for the killings were brought to justice.“Pakistan continues to persist with its nefarious conspiracies. We urge the Home Minister to ensure that those responsible for the deaths of these two SPOs are held to account as soon as possible. We want to exact a price—for these two, we want to take down four. I am leaving for the area shortly; as soon as we received the news that their bodies had been recovered, we set out for the southern region,” she said.The incident comes amid a separate attack on security personnel in Kulgam district, where three Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were injured after unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants opened fire at a security checkpoint on Wednesday afternoon.
