Militants attack PDP leader’s house in Anantnag Kashmir.

Militants attack PDP leader’s house in Anantnag, Kashmir.

Policemen who guarded the house of a senior leader of the ruling People's Democratic Party came under a militant attack in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, an official said on Monday.

The officer told the Kashmir dispatch that a group of heavily armed militants fired at the PDP leader Peer Mansoor Hussain's house and fired upon the guards for their safety.

Peer of Thajiwor village in the southern district is former member of the Jammu-Kashmir Legislative Assembly. It was not immediately known whether the former MP was inside his house at the time of the attack.

The officer said that after the exchange of fire with the police guard, the militants started retreating. When this report was written, search for a man was going on.