Anantnag, August 2: In another incident of weapon snatching, terrorists looted a 12 bore rifle from the security guard at a Jammu and Kashmir Bank branch in Anantnag's Brakpora today. After the loot, the terrorists fled from the spot. Security forces have corned off the entire area. Yesterday, A group of unidentified militants robbed Rs 5.78 lakh from a bank in Kulgam district.

On July 27, unidentified persons snatched 12 bore rifle from the security guard of Jammu and Kashmir bank in Shopian. On the same day, in a separate incident, terrorists barged into J&K bank in Kulgam district. They opened fire in which one civilian and a security guard were injured. On May 18, two terrorists looted around Rs 3,28,000 from a branch of Jammu and Kashmir Bank in Kulgam. In another incident, terrorists robbed cash from a J&K bank manager in Kapran village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district.

Recently terrorists are targeting J&K Bank for looting cash. Last year, there were a series of bank robberies in Kashmir. After demonetisation, not only there is an increase in the bank loot incidents in the Kashmir Valley, but weapon snatching incidents have also increased.

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