Stage set for tomorrow’s polling in high profile Udhampur LS seat amid high security
Jammu and Kashmir has five Lok Sabha constituencies and each one will go to polls in separate phases because of security reasons.
A militant was killed in a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police said on Thursday.
The terrorist has been identified as Showkat Ahmad Bhat.
“After some militants passed through the area, a brief gunfight started. The slain militant has been identified as Showkat Ahmad Bhat of Awantipora,” the police added.
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According to a PTI report, the slain militant, who belonged to Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TuM), was involved in a grenade attack in which three police personnel were injured in Baramulla district.
Showkat Ahmad Bhat was wanted in Wednesday’s Pattan grenade incident and was killed in the gunfight in the south Kashmir district, a police official said.
He said some arms and ammunition were recovered from his possession.
Bhat had managed to escape on Wednesday while his accomplice, Faizan Majeed Bhat – a resident of Tral in Pulwama – was arrested by the police who chased them after the militants lobbed a grenade on a police party at a naka in Pattan area.
Three police personnel, including Deputy Superintendent of Police Zafar Mehdi, were injured in the attack.
The duo had recently joined Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen outfit, the official said.
(With agency inputs)
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