3 families from south Kashmir reach Kupwara to claim militants’ bodies
By
Mushtaq Ahamd on 04/07/2020
Kupwara: Three families from south Kashmir, two from Shopian and one from Kulgam, reached district police lines Kupwara in north Kashmir to claim the bodies of three of the five militants killed in the Keran encounter.
The families admitted their kin joined militant groups few years back and said that they have a right to bury their bodies. Police sources said that the families told Kupwara police that they were informed by unknown men on the past night that three of the
killed militants were their kin who had joined militancy some years back.
Meanwhile, the Indian Army identified its five soldiers who were killed in the Keran encounter. The slain were identified as Subedar Sanjeev Kumar from Himachal Pradesh, Haveldar Davendra Singh from Utarakhand, Para trooper Bal Krishan from Himachal Pradesh, Para Trooper Amit Kumar from Utarakhand, and Chhatrapal Singh from Rajasthan.
Last week, the army posted along the LoC in Keran village found a group of militants who were challenged and a brief encounter ensued in which the militants managed to escape after talking advantage of darkness and bad weather.
From that time, several units of army conducted a massive search operation and on Saturday late evening, army’s 8 Jat regiment and para troopers again challenged the militants in a grazing area (behak).
On Sunday the army said that five militants were killed while a soldier lost his life and several others were injured in the encounter. In the evening, the army said that four other army soldiers had succumbed and the toll had risen to five.
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