Suspected militants dressed in army uniform snatched five service rifles from security guards posted at a TV tower in the Anantnag district of south Kashmir on Monday morning. The guards have been taken into custody.
Suspected militants assaulted the guards at a Low Power Transmitter station of public service broadcaster Doordarshan in Dalvash village late Sunday night.
The suspected militants stormed into the tower’s guardroom, overpowered the guards and escaped after snatching the rifles. They took away one Insas and carbine rifle each, and three self-loading rifles.
Search operation has been launched to locate the militants as well as the weapons.