(MENAFN- Kashmir Observer)
KO File Photo: Abid Bhat
Srinagar- Four militants were killed in two separate encounters with government forces in South Kashmir's Shopian district on Wednesday, police said.
Three Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants were killed in the Drach area of Shopian, while a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant was killed in the Moolu area of the south Kashmir district, they said.
“Three local #terrorists linked with proscribed #terror outfit JeM killed in #encounter at Drach #Shopian,” Additional Director General of Police, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said on Twitter.
He said a local militant of the proscribed outfit LeT was killed in an encounter in Moolu.
In the Drach operation, two of the three killed militants were identified as Hanan Bin Yaqoob and Jamshed, Kumar said.
They were involved in the killing of Special Police Officer (SPO) Javed Dar on October 2 at Pinglana in Pulwama and a migrant labourer from West Bengal on September 24 in the district, he said.
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