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JK: Rifles stolen as cops offered Friday prayers

May 04, 2012 23:14 IST

Unidentified persons looted two automatic rifles from a police post guarding minority community in Padguchi village of south Kashmir Shopian district on Friday afternoon.

A senior police officer said some unidentified forced their entry in the police post while the cops were away for Friday prayers and decamped with two self loading rifles.

He said senior police officers rushed to the spot and a case has been registered in the incident.

A massive manhunt has been launched to nab the culprits. The policemen were guarding the Kashmir Pandit villagers in the area.

Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar