{"id":51000,"date":"2022-04-06T21:53:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/two-augh-lashkar-militants-killed-in-tral-encounter-police\/"},"modified":"2022-04-06T21:53:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T16:23:09","slug":"two-augh-lashkar-militants-killed-in-tral-encounter-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=51000","title":{"rendered":"Two AuGH, Lashkar militants killed in Tral encounter: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>Slain were involved in Khomoh Sarpanch\u2019s killing, were operating in Sgr, had shifted to Tral; 66 JeM, LeT militants killed from Dec 2021 to March 2022, militants involved in attack on non-locals in Pulwama, KP in Shopian identified: IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar, says joint night patrolling intensified in vulnerable areas to prevent soft target killings<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pulwama, Apr 06:<\/strong> Two militants of Ansaar Gazwatul Hind (AuGH) and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) were killed in an encounter at Tral area of Awantipore in southern district of Pulwama district, police said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A police official told news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that based on a specific input generated by Ganderbal police regarding presence of militants in Tral area of Awantipora, a raid was conducted by Awantipora Police in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring the raid, as the search party proceeded towards the suspected spot, the hiding militants fired indiscriminately at the search party which was retaliated effectively leading to an encounter,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that in the ensuing encounter, one militant was killed and another was holed up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe reinforcement of Army (42RR) &amp; 180Bn CRPF reached the encounter site and joined the operation. The joint team later killed neutralized the second holed up militant as well,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A police spokesman in a statement to KNO said that the bodies of two slain were retrieved from the site of encounter. \u201cThey have been identified as Umar Nabi Teli alias Talha son of Ghulam Nabi Teli, resident of Ladoo Khrew and Shafat Muzaffar Sofi alias Muavia son of Muzaffar Ahmad Sofi, resident of Batagund Tral,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that as per police records, both the killed militants were categorized were associated with AuGH and LeT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talking to reporters in Srinagar, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir Vijay Kumar said that militants said that security forces have killed 66 militants of JeM and from December 21 to March 22, which has led to frustration among militants, who are now attacking the soft targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe two slain in Tral encounter were operating in Srinagar. After civilian and soft target killing, they shifted to Tral area and were tracked and killed,\u201d the IGP said, adding that in Pulwama, poor labourers from outside who had come here to earn their livelihood were attacked. \u201cWe have identified the involved militant and very soon he will be killed. Similarly, police have got some leads regarding targeting of a Kashmiri Pandit in a remote village of Shopian and the involved militant shall also be killed soon,\u201d the IGP said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To a question if Pakistani militants are \u201cusing local\u201d militants , the IGP said: \u201cYou have seen that several foreigners were killed. However, the foreign militants use locals as a shield, as recently in Shopian where one local militant was killed while a Pakistani militant escaped from the encounter site and put local militant at the forefront.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IGP Kashmir also said that in view of soft target attacks by militants, the night patrolling has been enhanced and joint patrolling of police and security forces is being carried with security forces in vulnerable areas\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slain were involved in Khomoh Sarpanch\u2019s killing, were operating in Sgr, had shifted to Tral; 66 JeM, LeT militants killed from Dec 2021 to March 2022, militants involved in attack on non-locals in Pulwama, KP in Shopian identified: IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar, says joint night patrolling intensified in vulnerable areas to prevent soft target killings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51000","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\/51000","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=51000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51000\/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=51000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}