Harkat’s top gun killed in Bandipore encounter

A “divisional commander” of Pakistan-based Harkat-ul-Mujahideen was killed at Bandipore in North Kashmir, a defence spokesperson s...

A “divisional commander” of Pakistan-based Harkat-ul-Mujahideen was killed at Bandipore in North Kashmir, a defence spokesperson said today.

Abu Mugaira, a Rawalpindi resident who had been operating in the Bandipore region for the past eight years, was killed in an ambush by a joint team of Army and J-K Police’s Special Task Force personnel, said the spokesman, Lt Col V K Batra.

Mugaira, who police sources say was also associated with the pro-Pakistan Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen, walked into the trap late last night at Bapura village and was killed after a brief gunfight. The army spokesman said an AK-47 rifle and 70 rounds of ammunition was found on the slain militant commander.

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In a separate encounter, a joint party of 1 Rashtriya Rifles and 162 Battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force killed two militants at Homshalibugh in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Senior police officers said the team laid a siege around the village after getting a tip-off that militants were operating in the area.

As the soldiers started searching operations, they came under heavy fire. The security personnel retaliated and the two militants were killed.

Police has identified one of the slain militants as Mohammad Yousuf Bhat alias Dilawar. The identity of the second militant has not been revealed. Police said that two AK rifles, eight magazines, a wireless set, two hand grenades and 237 rounds of ammunition were found on the militants.

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