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| 3 day long encounter ends, death toll mounts to 8 | | Two AK-47 rifles, incriminating material recovered | | S Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
KUPWARA, Mar 3: Two LeT militants were killed while five security personnel including two policemen and three CRPF personnel were martyred in a three day long gunfight that ended today at Banagund area of Handwara. One civilian also lost his life in the encounter. The encounter broke out during the intervening night of Feb 28 and March 1 after the joint team of security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation. A fierce encounter started and two militants were believed to have been killed.
On Sunday morning, one more CRPF personnel succumbed to injuries while the militant believed to be a foreigner who was changing locations was gunned down. The CRPF trooper who succumbed today in army's 92 base hospital Badamibagh Srinagar has been identified as Head Constable, Sham Narayin Singh Yadav of CRPF 92, said sources.
With the killing of two militants, the death toll mounted to 8 including a civilian who was allegedly killed amid clashes near the gunfight on Friday.
However, when the joint search team went to retrieve the militant bodies amid a lull, one of the two militants, earlier believed to be dead stood up and fired indiscriminately.
A CRPF Inspector namely Pintu Kumar and paramilitary trooper Vinod besides two policemen Naseer Ahmad Kholi and Ghulam Mustafa Barah were martyred and eight uniformed men, seven of the army men, were injured in the subsequent gunfight.
A civilian Waseem Ahmad was also killed in alleged government forces action amid clashes near the encounter site.
Three houses have also been razed to rubble during the course of a gunfight. The three houses damaged belong to Manzoor Ahmad Shah son of Ghulam Hassan, Fayaz Ahmad Peer son of Wali Mohammad and Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat son of Ghulam Ahmad Bhat.
However a police spokesperson said that, this operation posed considerable difficulties to the security forces due to the topography of the area.
2 AK-47 rifles and incriminating material including arms & ammunition were recovered from the site of encounter.
Meanwhile, DIG north Kashmir Mohammad Suleiman Choudhary said that, on the basis of information about the presence militants in the area, the CASO was launched by security forces in which 2 leT militants were killed.
The militants killed have been identified as Kabli a resident of Pakistan and identification of another one is being ascertained said DIG. |
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