Unidentified militants killed an Indian Army soldier in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district, police said on Monday.
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Unidentified militants killed an Indian Army soldier in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district, police said on Monday.
According to police officials, the militants “moved forcefully” into the house of Territorial Army soldier Mukhtar Ahmad Malik at Churat in Kulgam district and “shot at him from a close range”.
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Mukhtar died on spot, said the police.
Mukhtar was a counter-insurgent before he joined the Territorial Army, the police added.
Earlier on August 30, masked terrorists barged into the house of a policeman in the Tral area of South Kashmir on Wednesday night and kidnapped his son Asif Ahmad Rather, an agriculture graduate.
In another incident, two terrorists were killed in a gunfight between security forces and terrorists that broke out on Thursday morning in the Hajin area of North Kashmir.
Reports said armed terrorists barged into the house of Rafiq Ahmad Rather, posted at the CID headquarters in Srinagar, and abducted his son from the Pinglish area of Tral in Pulwama district.
Police confirmed that some unidentified gunmen abducted the youth but his whereabouts were not known. In a passionate appeal in a video, mother of the abducted youth, Hameeda Begum, sought his release.
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