The situation in South Kashmir’s Shopian district was tense after the police on Monday recovered two more bodies, raising the death toll in last night’s firing incident on a vehicle to six<\/p>\n
“Two more bodies were recovered in Shopian district this morning,” a police spokesperson said<\/p>\n
Police recovered the body of another militant, identified as Ashiq Hussain Bhat of Lashkar-e-Taiba, seven km from Pahnoo where the Army had fired upon two vehicles when they tried to flee from a Mobile Vehicle Check Post. They also fired on the Army and policemen, officials said<\/p>\n
Bhat was a resident of Rakh Karpan<\/p>\n
Besides this, body of a civilian — Gowhar Ahmed Lone of Chitragam in Shopian — was recovered from another vehicle near the firing incident. The Army alleged that he was an overground worker of militant groups<\/p>\n
A Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant and three civilians, also alleged to be overground workers for the militant group by the Army, were killed in a firing incident last night in south Kashmir’s Shopian district after the ultras fired upon a joint check-point of the security forces<\/p>\n
A police official said a joint? MVCP (mobile vehicle check post) near Pohan in Shopian had signalled a car to stop, but it did not. The Army men were fired upon and they retaliated, in which a militant was killed<\/p>\n
Police rushed to the spot and identified one of the deceased as Amir Ahmed Malik, who had joined the LeT militant group in July last year<\/p>\n
Bodies of the others were handed over to their legal heirs, a police spokesperson had said<\/p>\n
“Weapons have been seized and legal proceedings initiated,” he said<\/p>\n
Police personnel were deployed in large numbers to keep a strict watch in militant-infested Shopian area, besides other parts of the Kashmir Valley as separatist amalgam — Joint Resistance Front — has given a call for bandh on Monday<\/p>\n
Schools and educational institutes, which were to open on Monday after two-month-long winter break, were closed as a precautionary measure in the Valley.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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