Jaish-e-Mohammad''s top commander killed in gunfight in Kashmir''s Baramulla
Majid Jahangir
Tribune News Service
Srinagar, October 9
A top commander of Jaish-e-Mohammad was killed in a brief gunfight in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Monday.
Sources said Pakistani militant commander of Jaish Khalid was injured after a covert team of the forces intercepted him at Ladoora, along the Baramulla-Handwara highway this afternoon, some 60 kms from Srinagar.
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“After getting injured he tried to escape. He was, however, caught up inside a building. A joint operation was later launched and the militant commander was killed in a brief gunfight,” sources said.
Khalid, police sources said, was the operation commander of the Jaish in north Kashmir.
Police had recently said that a group of Jaish militants was planning a fidayeen attack on security forces installations.
Since August, Jaish fidayeen carried out two fidayeen attacks on security forces camps in Kashmir and killed at least nine security men. Last week, three fidayeen stormed a BSF camp in Srinagar, located next to Srinagar Airport, which resulted in the killing of three militants and a BSF personnel.
