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Forces gun down five LeT militants in Kashmir

Srinagar: Five Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) guerrillas were killed today in two separate gunfights with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, police said.

Three militants were killed in Kupwara’s Zachaldara forest area, about 120 km from Srinagar, while two others hiding in a house were gunned down in Laribal village, police said.

 

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Five suspected terrorists killed in encounter with Army, police in J&K | NetIndian

Five suspected terrorists were killed in an encounter with personnel of the Army's 21 Rashtriya Rifles and the Jammu and Kashmir Police in the early hours of today, a Defence spokesman said today.

 

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Separatists gun down cop in Srinagar

A police officer was shot dead Friday by separatist guerrillas near a police station in this Jammu and Kashmir summer capital, police said.

''Separatist guerrillas fired from close range at Sukhpal Singh, assistant sub-inspector of police, near the Bagyaz police station in the city Friday," a police officer told IANS.

Sukhpal Singh received two bullet wounds and was taken to hospital in a critical condition but succumbed to his injuries, family sources said.
No separatist group has accepted responsibility till now.

With the mountain passes reopening as spring begins, security sources have been put on high alert to thwart infiltration into the Kashmir Valley.

Separatists gun down cop in Srinagar

 

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A police officer has been killed by an unknown gunman in Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir.

An official told the BBC that a man carrying a pistol shot at Sukhpal Singh from close range. He died on his way to a hospital.

No separatist group has said it carried out the attack.

The Muslim-majority region has seen a separatist insurgency against Indian rule since 1989, although violence has declined in the last year.

As violence has subsided, tourist numbers to the once-popular region have again risen.

The region's tourism director, Farooq Ahmad, said he expects more than two million tourists over the coming summer months.

'Changing insurgency'
After this latest incident, police stations have been put on alert and officials have been warned to wear bulletproof gear.

The BBC's Srinagar correspondent, Riyaz Masroor, says such shootouts have happened in the past.

Last year, police arrested a local boy and claimed he was a "cop killer".

Police official AG Mir said the face of the insurgency in Kashmir has been changing.

"Groups and cells no longer exist," he said. "One militant can recruit boys for assassinations and other subversive acts."

India policeman killed in Kashmir - I4U News

 

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Indian army kills 4 suspected rebels in Kashmir | DAWN.COM

SRINAGAR: The Indian army says soldiers have shot and killed four suspected rebels who allegedly intruded into the Indian portion of Kashmir from Pakistani territory to attack government forces and targets.

 

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Top Hizbul militant killed in Jammu and Kashmir - The Times of India

RAMBAN: A top Hizbul Mujahideen militant was killed in a gunbattle with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district, police said today.

Ghulam Qadir alias Tohid-ul-Islam, a self-styled Hizbul commander, was killed in Bhimdasa area in Ramban in a joint operation by police and army last night.

 

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Seven CRPF personnel injured in militant attack
Srinagar, May 30, 2012,(PTI)
Seven CRPF personnel were today injured, one of them critically, as two motorcycle-borne militants opened indiscriminate firing on them at Khanyar in old city.

Two militants riding a motorcycle fired on the CRPF personnel of 82nd Battalion as they were leaving their headquarters at Shiraz Cinema for law and order duty at around 7.15 AM, Senior Superintendent of Police, Srinagar, Aashiq Bukhari told PTI

"Seven security force personnel were injured in the militant attack at Victory Crossing near Khanyar," he said, adding while one jawan received bullet injuries in the chest, six others received injuries on their limbs.

The injured jawans were rushed to SKIMS Hospital at Soura where the doctors said condition of one jawan was "critical".

Official sources said the driver of the motorcycle was wearing a helmet while the pillion had covered his face with a mask.

No militant outfit has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.Police has sounded an alert across the city and an operation has been launched to track down the assailants.
Seven CRPF personnel injured in militant attack

 

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Hizbul Mujahideen Militant Arrested in Jammu

Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested a dreaded Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist here who was allegedly involved in the attack on the Sopore police station in January this year.

"We have arrested Wasim Ahmed Bhat from Jammu last evening," Superintendent of Police (Sopore) Imtiyaz Hussain said today.

He said Bhat was allegedly involved in the firing at the Sopore Police station on January seven in which one civilian was killed and five policemen were injured.

Immediately after this incident, Bhat had vanished from the state following heightened searches launched by the police to nab him.

Hussain said that he was wanted in connection with an FIR (No. 8/2012) registered at Sopore police station under various sections, including that of murder, of the Indian Penal Code.

A senior state police official said Bhat had again surfaced as Sopore police found out that he was at Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh.

His movements were tracked carefully and when he entered into the jurisdiction of Jammu and Kashmir along with his friend Sajjad Ahmed Bhat, he was arrested by a Sopore police party which was monitoring his activities.

Sajjad, who is being interrogated, may be left after sometime, the SP said.

23-year-old Wasim Bhat is a locally trained militant who began with Lashker-e-Taiba terror group and later switched his allegiance to Hizbul Mujahideen.

He is also wanted in connection with the murder of a doctor in Handwara district in North Kashmir.

Hizbul Mujahideen Militant Arrested in Jammu | news.outlookindia.com