Militant involved in attack on police party killed, says police
Infiltration bid foiled, four militants killed in Uri
Srinagar: A Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TuM) militant involved in a grenade attack in which three police personnel were injured in Baramulla district was killed Thursday in a gunfight with security forces in Pulwama district, police said.
Showkat Ahmad Bhat was wanted in Wednesday’s Pattan grenade incident and was killed in the gunfight in the south Kashmir district, a police official said.
He said some arms and ammunition were recovered from his possession.
Bhat had managed to escape Wednesday while his accomplice, Faizan Majeed Bhat – a resident of Tral in Pulwama – was arrested by the police who chased them after the militants lobbed a grenade on a police party at a naka in Pattan area.
Three police personnel, including Deputy Superintendent of Police Zafar Mehdi, were injured in the attack.
The duo had recently joined Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen outfit, the official said.
Meanwhile, thousands of people participated in the last rites of slain militant at his native village Dangerpora Awantipora.
Reports said that despite restrictions at entry and exit points of Padgampora village, large number of people took part in the funeral prayers of Showkat.
Eye witnesses said that a gun salute was also offered to the slain militant, by some unknown militants, who appeared during his funeral prayers.
Showkat recently joined militant outfit “Tehreeq Ul Mujahideen”. Prior to his joining the militant ranks he was pursuing a course in Pharmacy in Kashmir university.
Meanwhile, four militants were killed in an encounter with government forces in upper reaches of forests of Boniyar in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Thursday.
Official sources told a local new gathering agency that a search party of army’s 5 Grenadier intercepted a group of militants at Torna post in the woods of Boniyar at around 8:30 am.
“After being intercepted, the militants opened fire triggering off the gunfight which according to sources continued intermittently till 12:30 pm”.
An army officer also confirmed the incident and said that four unidentified militants have been killed and their identity and group affiliation are being ascertained.
“Three bodies have been recovered by the forces and additional reinforcements of the army at around 1:30 pm and later one more body was recovered late in the evening as the area is a high terrain and have dense forest cover,” the officer said. (With inputs from GNS)
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