Srinagar: Five militants and two each civilians soldiers were killed in two separate gunbattles in Pulwama and Shopian districts of Kashmir Valley on Thursday.
Three Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants, including a top commander identified as a Pakistan national Khalid Bhai, a civilian and a soldier were killed in Dalipora village of Pulwama during an operation by security forces.
Police said Khalid Bhai was a key face among killed terrorists as he masterminded the 2017 attack on the Lethpora CRPF camp in Pulwama district in which five troopers were killed.
No casualties were reported in a third shootout between the security forces and militants in Kupwara's Kandi forests on Thursday.
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Civilian among three killed in Shopian gunfight
Srinagar: While a police statement said that three militants were killed in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district, it was confirmed later that one of the victim was a civilian.
The police said in a statement on Thursday that three militants were killed in the gunfight that took place earlier in the day in Handew village.
While two victims were identified as Yawar Mushtaq and Shakeel Ahmed, both Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militants from Shopian, the third was identified as a civilian, Ishtiyaq Ahmed Bhat.
A soldier, Rohit Kumar Yadav who was injured in the gunfight, succumbed to his wounds on Thursday night in the Army's 92 base hospital in Srinagar, the police said.
In Thursday's two gunfights in Pulwama and Shopian districts killed a total of five militants, two civilians and two soldiers.
Three Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militants, including a top commander identified as a Pakistan national Khalid Bhai, a civilian and a soldier were killed in a gunfight in Dalipora village of Pulwama.
Police said Khalid Bhai had masterminded the 2017 attack on the Lethpora CRPF camp in Pulwama district in which five troopers were killed.
In a third shootout between the security forces and militants in Kupwara's Kandi forests on Thursday, there were no reports of any casualty.
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