6 militants among 8 killed in J&K gunfights
| Date :17-May-2019 |
SRINAGAR:
A soldier and a civilian were killed, 4 injured in three gunfights
SIX militants, including a top Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) commander, as well as a soldier and a civilian were killed and four others injured in three gunfights between security forces and militants across the Kashmir Valley on Thursday. In the first gunfight in Dalipora village of Pulwama district, three Jaish militants, including a top commander who had masterminded the 2017 attack on a CRPF camp, a soldier and a civilian were killed, police said.
“The slain militants have been identified as two locals, Naseer Pandit and Umar Mir and Pakistani national Khalid Bhai. Khalid was a top JeM commander and had masterminded the 2017 attack on the CRPF camp in Lethpora in which five troopers were killed,” a police source said. The civilian victim was identified as Rayees Ahmad Dar, son of the owner of the house where the militants were hiding. His brother, Muhammad Younis, sustained a gunshot injury.
According to the sources, two soldiers were also injured in the exchange of firing. Giving details of the gunfight, a police statement said “On a credible input, a cordon and search operation was launched today morning by police and security forces at Dalipora area. “As police and security forces were evacuating civilians from the neighbourhood around the target house, the hiding terrorists fired indiscriminately. In the process, one Army jawan, Sepoy Sandeep attained martyrdom and one civilian Rayees Dar also lost his life.”
Security forces retaliated, killing three militants whose bodies were retrieved from the site, it said. “They were identified as Naseer Pandit of Kareemabad, Pulwama, Umar Mir of Shopian and from the incriminating material recovered from the site of encounter, one terrorist has been identified as a Pakistani, namely Khalid. “According to police records, the killed terrorists were affiliated with proscribed terror outfit JeM,” it said. In another gunfight in Handew village of Shopian district, three militants were killed while a soldier was injured. Police said firing exchanges have stopped but the search operation is still going on.
Violence in Bhaderwah after one killed in firing
BHADERWAH/JAMMU
CURFEW was on Thursday imposed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bhaderwah Valley following violent protests triggered by the killing of a person in a firing incident, police said. While officials were trying to ascertain the reason behind the firing incident, relatives of the deceased Nayeem alleged he was a victim of cow vigilantism, police said. However, the other side involved in the incident said they opened fire after they found the two men roaming under suspicious circumstances on Wednesday night, police said. Soon after the incident, family of the deceased attacked the Bhaderwah police station, damaged five vehicles and set afire a three wheeler, they said. Police used batons and teargas to quell the mob. “One person with the name of Nayeem was coming from Chatergala side. When he reached a spot near Nalti area, he was killed and another person received splinter injuries (in firing)”, IGP Jammu Zone, M K Sinha told PTI.