An official said that a CASO was launched in the village following a tip-off about the presence of militants on Wednesday. He said the militants opened fire on the forces, triggering a brief gunfight.<\/i><\/p>\n
Government forces on Thursday called off the cordon-and-search-operation (CASO) after the trapped militants, believed to be five in number, escaped in Turkwangam village of south Kashmir\u2019s Shopian district.<\/i>
\nAn official said that a CASO was launched in the village following a tip-off about the presence of militants on Wednesday. He said the militants opened fire on the forces, triggering a brief gunfight.<\/i><\/p>\n
At least three militants are believed to have escaped after the initial firefight, which left a subedar-major of army wounded. He was shifted to army\u2019s 92 Base Hospital in Srinagar for treatment.<\/i>
\nAs soon as the news of gunfight spread, youth took to streets and clashed with the forces to disrupt the anti-militant operation. The forces fired live ammunition, pellets and teargas into the protesters near the gunfight site, resulting into death of a youth Umar Kumar of Pinjura and injuries to 30 others.<\/i>
\nAs youth continued to clash with the forces, two more trapped militants managed to escape from the cordoned off area, with the support of locals, said a source. He said that a top commander of the Hizb ul Mujahideen, Zeenat ul Islam was also among the trapped militants.<\/i>
\nBut the forces continued to surround the village until wee hours of Thursday when the operation was called off.<\/i>
\nLocals alleged that the forces destroyed two houses, including the one belonging to the father-in-law of Islam, during the searches.<\/i>
\nIslam, who hails from Sugan village, has been active in the militant ranks since early 2015. He had escaped during a cordon-and-search operation near his native village at Dragad- Sugan on April 1 along with four of his associates in which seven Hizb militants were killed.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An official said that a CASO was launched in the village following a tip-off about the presence of militants on Wednesday. He said the militants opened fire on the forces, triggering a brief gunfight. Government forces on Thursday called off the cordon-and-search-operation (CASO) after the trapped militants, believed to be five in number, escaped in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}