Mubashir Bukhari
Srinagar (NVI): Security forces today killed three Hizbul Mujahideen militants in a gunfight at Wachi village in Shopian district of South Kashmir.
Acting on specific inputs, a joint team of Army’s 55 Rashtriya Rifles and Special Operations Group (SOG) of Jammu & Kashmir police launched a cordon and search operation in Wachi area of Shopian this morning. “As the searches were going on in the area, the hiding militants fired upon forces leading to gunfight in which three militants were killed,” a police official said.
One of the militants has been identified as Adil Ahmad, a Special Police Officer (SPO) who had deserted the force in 2018 and decamped with seven AK assault rifles from the official residence of the then MLA Wacchi Aijaz Ahmad Mir. The identification of the other two militants is being ascertained.
Meanwhile, security has been beefed up across Jammu and Kashmir ahead of the Republic Day celebration.
Checkpoints have been erected in many places in Srinagar and frisking has been intensified. Police are seen at many places stopping and checking the vehicles.
