Srinagar, July 23 -- A lone terrorist shot dead a policeman on Amarnath Yatra security duty in South Kashmir's Anantnag town on Wednesday.

The attack on Head Constable Ashiq Hussain Qureshi occurred around 12:30 pm at Lal Chowk in Anantnag.

The Resistance Front (TRF), a "shadow group of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)", claimed responsibility for the targeted attack in a social media post shortly after the incident, officials said.

Qureshi, a resident of Beerwah in central Kashmir, was posted in the Jammu and Kashmir Police's IRP 3rd Battalion. He was critically injured and rushed to the Government Medical College Hospital in Anantnag, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.

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