{"id":49654,"date":"2021-12-30T21:17:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T15:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/6-jaish-militants-soldier-killed-in-two-separate-encounters-in-south-kashmir-police\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T21:17:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T15:47:10","slug":"6-jaish-militants-soldier-killed-in-two-separate-encounters-in-south-kashmir-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=49654","title":{"rendered":"6 Jaish militants, soldier killed in two separate encounters in South Kashmir: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>Two M-4 rifles and 04 AK-47 rifles recovered; two slain foreign militants were involved in Zewan attack, IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar, says 2 M-4 guns, 4 AK-47 rifles recovered from slain; 11 militants killed in five days, 6 in 24 hours, foreign militants coming out of hide-outs: GoC 15 Corps DP Pandey<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anantnag, Kulgam, Dec 30:<\/strong> Six Jaish-e-Muhammad militants including two foreigners and a soldier were killed in two separate encounters in southern districts of Anantnag and Kulgam conducted by security agencies in the past 24-hours, police said Thursday. Two soldiers and a policeman were also injured in one of the encounters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A police official told news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), during the past 24-hrs, two anti-militancy operations were carried out in twin districts of South Kashmir resulting in elimination of six militants of JeM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe slain militants include two foreigners who were involved in the attack on police bus at Zewan killing three policemen and injuring 11 years,\u201d the official said. He said that the first encounter took place in Nowgam,Dooru area of Anantnag, where a joint cordon and search operation was launched by Police, 19RR and 164Bn CRPF on Wednesday late evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring the search operation, as the presence of militants got ascertained, they fired indiscriminately upon the joint search party which was retaliated leading to an encounter,\u201d the official said, adding that \u201cIn the initial exchange of fire, four security forces personnel including a policeman received gunshot injuries. They were evacuated to hospital for treatment of their injuries however, one soldier succumbed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Briefing the media persons at Wuzur,Qazigund army camp, the IGP Kashmir said that in the encounter, three militants of JeM were killed. \u201cThey were identified as Sultan alias Rayees alias Mavia (a foreigner), Nisar Ahmad Khanday, a resident of Dudwangan, Kapran and Altaf Ahmad Shah, a resident of Nathipora, Dooru,\u201d the IGP said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that slain militant Altaf and foreign militant Sultan alias Rayees alias Mavia along with another militant Suhail Rather were involved in the Zewan, Srinagar attack in which three policemen were killed and 11 others injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IGP Kashmir said another operation was launched in Mirhama, Kulgam. \u201cA joint cordon was laid by police, army\u2019s 9RR and 18 battalion CRPF in the area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring the search operation, as the presence of militants got ascertained, they fired indiscriminately upon the joint search party which was retaliated leading to an encounter. In the ensuing encounter, three militants JeM were killed and their bodies were retrieved from the site of encounter,\u201d the IGP said, adding that the slain were identified as Shahid alias Shahzaid resident of Pakistan (a foreign militant), Muhammad Shafi Dar resident of Tral and Uzair Ahmad, a resident of Mirhama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IGP said that slain militant Shahid was listed among the top most wanted militants operating in J&amp;K while as the other two killed militants were also categorized ones linked with JeM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that huge cache of arms and ammunition including 02 M-4 rifles, 04 AK-47 rifles were also recovered from the sites of encounters. Speaking on the occasion, General officer Commanding (GoC) of Srinagar-based army\u2019s 15 Corps Lieutenant General D P Pandey while replying to a query that of late, foreign militants are also getting killed, said that it was because they are coming out of their hide-outs to carry out operations as locals militants are refusing to attack forces due to their own challenges. \u201cAs the foreigners would come out of their hide-outs, they will be killed,\u201d he said in the past five days, 11 militants were killed and in past 24 hours, six militants were killed\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two M-4 rifles and 04 AK-47 rifles recovered; two slain foreign militants were involved in Zewan attack, IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar, says 2 M-4 guns, 4 AK-47 rifles recovered from slain; 11 militants killed in five days, 6 in 24 hours, foreign militants coming out of hide-outs: GoC 15 Corps DP Pandey Anantnag, Kulgam, Dec [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49654","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\/49654","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=49654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49654\/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=49654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}