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.
Four persons, including a militant, 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.
While the army maintained that the three people killed in the attack were the associates of the terrorists, the locals have alleged that they were civilians.
Authorities have imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar today to prevent separatist-called protests, police said.
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Separatist conglomerate, Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) headed by Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, have called for a valley-wide protest shutdown against the killing of three over ground workers (OGWs) and the militant.
The death toll in firing incident has climbed to five after one more body was recovered from the scene earlier today.
“Another body has been found at a distance from last evening’s incident at Pahnoo Shopian,” a police spokesman said.
He said the deceased has been identified as Gowhar Ahmed Lone of Chitragam in Shopian.
Sources said Lone’s body was recovered from a car.
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, the official said.
He said a weapon and a pouch were found near the militant’s body.
He said when police were called in, they found a car some distance away in which three boys were found dead.
Srinagar-based Defence Spokesman Col Rajesh Kalia said the militant has been identified as Shahid Ahmad Dar, a resident of Jamnagri Shopian.
He said the three boys were over-ground workers and accomplices of the slain militant.
(With agencies inputs)
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