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3 HM militants killed in Tral
[Daily Excelsior] Three snuffies of Hizbul Mujahideen were killed in an overnight shootout with security forces in Tral area of South Kashmire’s Pulwama district.
They were surrounded yesterday. "Surrounded" seems to have a pretty standard meaning in J&K.
Police said that three snuffies were killed in the encounter that broke out last evening at Mir Mohalla in Dadsara village of Tral. The dead snuffies have been identified as Aasif Yousuf of Dadsara Tral, Ishaq Parray of Laribal Tral and Aashiq Hussain of Chersoo village of Awantipora.

Ishaq Ahmad, 20, was being called as Newton for his meritorious academic record as he had scored 98.4 percent in his 10th class examinations in 2011. The slain was preparing for CET when he left his home and joined militancy last year.

Army’s 42 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and Special Operation Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmire Police on a specific information about the presence of three HM snuffies cordoned off Dadsara village last evening. As they were conducting searches during the operation snuffies opened fire from a residential house on them leading to a shootout.

Troops put the operation on hold last night and tightened the cordon around the village to prevent snuffies from fleeing. They launched an assault on the house at around 3 pm killing all the three bad boys.

The house was damaged in the encounter and three AK-47 rifles were recovered from the encounter site. Army said that Ashiq Hussain had provided shelter to the LeT snuffies who carried out the attack on BSF at Udhampur last year.

Security forces this year achieved major success against snuffies in Kashmire killing 20 snuffies including 15 from LeT and 5 of Hizbul Mujahideen so far. This is highest number of snuffies killed in the first over 60 days in recent years.

The killings of three snuffies triggered protests in Tral and Awantipora areas by locals who resorted to stone-pelting on security forces amid a shutdown in the area.

Soon after bodies of three snuffies were handed over to their families, people in large numbers gathered at the bad boys’ native villages for attending funerals.

Stone-pelting festivities broke out at several places including Tral Town, Dadsara and Chursoo between forces and angry youths after the funerals of the slain snuffies during which police fired scores of teargas shells. Police, however, said the situation in both Awantipora and Tral is under control.


Posted by: Fred 2016-03-04
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