Shopian: Police along with security forces have killed 4 local militants in twin encounters in Shopian district of South Kashmir.
Yesterday at about 2005hrs, Police along with Army (44RR) and CRPF (14 Bn) launched a joint cordon and search operation in village Drach Keegam area of Shopian following an input regarding presence of militants in the said area. As the joint search party proceeded towards the suspected spot the hiding militants fired indiscriminately upon the search party. The joint party retaliated effectively leading to an encounter.
In the ensuing encounter, 3 local militants linked with proscribed terror outfit JeM were killed and their bodies were recovered from the site of encounter. They have been identified as Zubair Maqbool Wani resident of Doompora Keegam, Jamsheed Ahmad Magray resident of Rajpora & Hanaan Bin Yaqoob @ Saqib resident of Kareemabad Pulwama.
As per police records, all the killed militants were categorized terrorists and were involved in several terror crime cases including attacks on Police/SFs and civilian atrocities. militants Hanan Bin Yaqoob and Jamsheed were involved in recent killing of SPO Javed Dar on 02/10/2022 at Pinglana area of Pulwama. They were also involved in killing of an outside labourer from West Bengal in Gadoora. Besides, militant Jamshed was involved in Ratnipora terror attack where he shot & injured two outside labourers.
Meanwhile, today morning in the wee hours, on a specific input regarding presence of militant at Moolu area of Shopian, police along with Army (44 RR) and CRPF (178 Bn) launched a joint cordon and search operation in the said area.
As the joint search party approached towards the suspected spot, the hiding terrorist fired indiscriminately which was effectively retaliated by the joint search party resulting the elimination of a local militant. He has been identified as Arif Rashid Wani resident of Shirmal.
As per Police records the killed militant was a categorised militant linked with proscribed terror outfit LeT. He was involved in several terror crime cases including attacks on Police/SFs and civilian atrocities.
Arms & ammunition including 04 AK series rifles, 01 Pistol, 08 AK magazines, 04 Pistol magazines & other incriminating materials were recovered from both the encounter sites. All the recovered materials have been taken into case records for further investigation.
Regarding the incidents, cases under relevant sections of law have been registered at respective police stations and further investigations have been initiated. People are requested to cooperate with Police till the areas at encounter sites are completely sanitized and cleared of all the explosive materials, if any.