Kashmir: Encounter breaks out in Shopian’s Alshipora area
An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in the Alshipora area of Shopian, police said on Tuesday.
An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in the Alshipora area of Shopian, police said on Tuesday.
The duo identified as Suhaib Reyaz and Anayat Ullah Iqbal, both residents of Saidapora Payeen, confessed to their involvement in the terror attack.
Two non-local labourers from Uttar Pradesh were killed in Harmen area of South Kashmir's Shopian district in the grenade attack.
Deceased has been identified as Puran Krishan Bhat, a Kashmiri Pandit. The injured was shifted to the hospital where he was declared dead.
Jamaat-e-Islami was declared an unlawful association in 2019, but it continued to raise funds in various forms on the pretext of charitable purposes.
The militants had fired on a search party and security personnel retaliated, the officials said.
Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Reban area of the south Kashmir district on Monday morning.
Davinder Singh was arrested on January 11 with two top terrorists of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) while he was driving them in a car to probably make them escape to Jammu where they might have been planning a terror strike.
Police said that in the evening terrorists fired at two trucks near Chitragam of Shopian leaving three drivers injured.
According to the sources, Doval was in Kashmir to assess the security situation in the state as it was placed under curfew in the wake of the government's announcement.
