Three suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militants, including one involved in the abduction and murder of a soldier last year, were killed in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district yesterday.
Another militant was killed in a shootout in Baramulla, police said.
Police sources said Showkat Ahmad Dar, a Hizbul militant killed in Punzgam village of Pulwama, was involved in abduction and subsequent murder of soldier Aurangzeb, who had participated in an operation in which top militant commander, Sameer Tiger, was killed on April 30 last year.
A second-generation soldier, Aurangzeb of the 44 Rashtriya Rifles was abducted from a private vehicle on June 14 last year from Kalampora village of Pulwama when he was on way to join his family in Poonch district to celebrate Eid. His bullet-riddled body was found in Gusoo village of Pulwama the next day.
The three Hizbul men were killed early yesterday after an overnight gunbattle in Punzgam.
Apart from Dar, who hailed from Punzgam, the other two were identified as Muzaffar Ahmed and Irfan Ahmad from Sopore area of Baramulla.
Another gunbattle broke out in Hathlangoo village of Baramulla after a militant fired at a cordon and search party.
Mita Santra (second left), wife of CRPF trooper Bablu Santra receives a cheque of Rs101,000 during an event by Siliguri Taxation Bar Association in Siliguri, West Bengal, yesterday. The association organised the event to donate Rs101,000 each the families of the CRPF personnel killed in a deadly attack on a convoy in Kashmir on February 14.
