Amaq, an online propaganda portal linked to the Islamic State (IS), on July 13 released a purported video online where an attacker aims at policemen from a close range apparently in Srinagar’s Lal Bazaar area. A militant attack left one police officer dead and two others injured on Tuesday (July 12) evening.
The Islamic State after Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi
The 40-second video showed the attacker, filming with a body camera and carrying a pistol, coming close to a stationed police vehicle and opening fire from close range in Srinagar’s Lal Bazaar. The attacker first showers bullets at a policeman and later opens indiscriminate fire on the vehicle from the sides. He changes the magazine and fires upon another policeman under a Chinar tree. In between, several gunshots from an automatic rifle could also be heard in the video.
