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Hizbul Mujahideen operational commander Riyaz Naikoo, who took over the reins after the death of Burhan Wani, has been killed after a prolonged gunbattle between security forces and terrorists in Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Wednesday.
Riyaz Naikoo was the key commander of the banned terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen. He had been on the run for over eight years before being killed in south Kashmir on Wednesday.
Sources said Riyaz Naikoo was visiting his aged parents in the village for Ramzan when intel sources got a tip-off on his presence in the area. The forces then launched the operation and trapped him.
A joint team of Indian Army, CRPF and Jammu and Kashmir Police launched a cordon and search operation in the Beighbora village on Tuesday night that turned into a gunbattle.
On Tuesday night, the "intelligence input" gave specific details about the whereabouts of Naikoo. Multiple fields and railway tracks were dug up after receiving the inputs about possible tunnels or underground hideouts.
At 9 am, contact was established with the trapped terrorists and a firefight ensued. The search operation was called of at 1 pm on Wednesday but the cordon remained.
As the gunbattle continued into Wednesday afternoon, the forces blew up a house in Awantipora in which Riyaz Naikoo was suspected to be trapped. The forces used around 40 kg IED to blow up the house.
Riyaz Naikoo carried a bounty of Rs 12 lakh on his head before being killed on Wednesday. Naikoo became the de facto chief of Hizbul Mujahideen after the death of Burhan Wani, the poster boy of militancy in Kashmir Valley, in July 2016.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/sto...illed-in-kashmir-encounter-1674985-2020-05-06
Riyaz Naikoo was the key commander of the banned terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen. He had been on the run for over eight years before being killed in south Kashmir on Wednesday.
Sources said Riyaz Naikoo was visiting his aged parents in the village for Ramzan when intel sources got a tip-off on his presence in the area. The forces then launched the operation and trapped him.
A joint team of Indian Army, CRPF and Jammu and Kashmir Police launched a cordon and search operation in the Beighbora village on Tuesday night that turned into a gunbattle.
On Tuesday night, the "intelligence input" gave specific details about the whereabouts of Naikoo. Multiple fields and railway tracks were dug up after receiving the inputs about possible tunnels or underground hideouts.
At 9 am, contact was established with the trapped terrorists and a firefight ensued. The search operation was called of at 1 pm on Wednesday but the cordon remained.
As the gunbattle continued into Wednesday afternoon, the forces blew up a house in Awantipora in which Riyaz Naikoo was suspected to be trapped. The forces used around 40 kg IED to blow up the house.
Riyaz Naikoo carried a bounty of Rs 12 lakh on his head before being killed on Wednesday. Naikoo became the de facto chief of Hizbul Mujahideen after the death of Burhan Wani, the poster boy of militancy in Kashmir Valley, in July 2016.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/sto...illed-in-kashmir-encounter-1674985-2020-05-06
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