Srinagar: Indian security forces have killed two militants in a gunbattle in the restive region of Indian controlled Kashmir, including a “most wanted” commander, a police officer said. The militants were identified on Thursday in the village of Keller, 50 kilometres south of Srinagar, police superintendent Mumtaz Ahmad told media.
A top local commander of the Jaish-i-Mohammad militant outfit named as Qari Zubair was killed in the ensuing firefight along with his bodyguard.
“Qari Zubair was active in south Kashmir for the last five years and was one of the most wanted foreign militants,” the police officer told media late Thursday.
In April this year, local chief of Jaish-i-Mohammad Sajjad Afghani and his bodyguard were shot dead by police in a gunfight along the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar.
Thursday’s killings took to six the number of suspected militants shot dead by Indian troops in the Himalayan region since Monday.
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