Militants here gunned down a PDP leader outside his house and two J-K policemen who tried to stop them. Forty-five-year-old Ghulam Mohammad Dar, a leader from Budgam, was ready to receive his uncle who was returning from Haj in Hyderpora at 9.30 am. Family friend Ghulam Qadir recounts: ‘‘He was standing there, watching the cars on their way to receive pilgrims at the airport. He was waiting there for his uncle.till a youth walked upto him and shot him in the forehead.’’Seeing Dar fall, pedestrians rushed to him when another shot rang out. The fleeing militants had shot at two J-K policemen posted on the airport road — across the road from where Dar was shot.‘‘The policemen were on duty to ensure safe passage of Haj pilgrims on the airport road. They tried to stop the militant. But a second militant shot at them and fled. Dar and a policeman died on the spot while the other cop died in hospital,’’ said Srinagar DIG Mohammad Amin Shah.Meanwhile, a militant group identifying itself as Save Kashmir Movement has claimed responsibility for the killings.
