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| Nine killed in Kashmir violence |
| 2009-04-22 |
| [The Hindu National] Ahead of the second phase of elections to the Lok Sabha, a Lashkar-e-Taiba commander, his female accomplice and three security personnel were among nine persons killed in separate militancy-related incidents in Jammu and Kashmir since Monday. Police sources said that that on specific information Doda police and 10 Rashtriya Rifles men laid siege around Kastigarh area in Doda district. During the combing operation, the soldiers zeroed in on a house and asked the militants holed up there to surrender. They, however, refused and opened fire with sophisticated weapons. In the ensuing gunfight, the Lashkar commander, the woman, a soldier and a Special Police Officer (SPO) of the JK police were killed. The slain militant commander was identified as Mukhtiar Ahmed, son of Abdul Hamid Lambardar of Kashtigarh Doda while his accomplice was identified as Dilshad, daughter of Ghulam Rasool Parray of Kurdar Manwas, Doda. A female militant accomplice had been killed in the area a day before. In a separate gunfight at Mandyari, Pattan in North Kashmir Baramulla district, a Hizbul Mujahideen militant and a paramilitary CRPF jawan Amit Kumar were killed. |
| Posted by:Fred |