JAMMU: A suspected drug peddler was killed and another detained during a cross-firing with police in Jammu city, officials said.
A police team was chasing suspected drug peddlers, and as per preliminary reports, the team was fired upon under the Satwari police station this evening, a police spokesperson said.
In the cross-firing that followed, one unidentified person was injured and has been shifted to Government Medical College Hospital in Jammu, he said.
One drug peddler was killed in the cross-firing, a senior police officer said, adding that another was detained.
Police sources said that the injured person succumbed on way to the hospital and was identified as Mohd Parvaiz alias Bachu of Javed Nagar, Nikki Tawi, Jammu.
Senior police officers reached the spot, and further investigation is underway.
