Hizb commander among 3 militants killed in Tral

Tribune News Service

Srinagar/Anantnag, Feb 19

The slain militants were identified as Jahangir Ahmad of Drumbal in Tral, Raja Umar Maqbool of Lurgam in Tral and Saadat Ahmad Thoker of Bijbehara in Anantnag district.

“We carried out another successful operation in Tral in which three terrorists of the Hizbul Mujahideen were killed…. One of the slain, Jahangir, was a dangerous terrorist who had taken over the command of the Hizb after the killing of Hamad Khan,” J&K Director General Police Dilbag Singh, accompanied by IGP, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, said at a press conference in Srinagar.

Hamad was killed along with two other local militants in a gunfight on January 12.

“Jahangir was involved in eight militancy-related incidents, including the killing of two Tral residents Mehraj u-din Zargar and Ghulam Nabi Mir. He was behind setting fire to a chemist’s shop and a truck and pasting threat posters after the abrogation of Article 370,” Dilbag Singh said, adding that he was also involved in setting ablaze a mosque in Tral.

A local police officer said the gunfight took place in an open field about 1.15 am in the Payeen area of the volatile south Kashmir town.

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