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| Three militants gunned down in Sopore encounter |
| 2014-01-14 |
| [INDIANEXPRESS] Three snuffies were killed in a fierce shootout with security forces at a Sopore village in Jammu and Kashmire on Monday. This is the third major encounter between the snuffies and security forces in the last seven days in Sopore -- a bad boy and separatist stronghold in north Kashmire. "Three snuffies have been killed so far. The encounter is still on and the identification of the dead snuffies is under process," Superintendent of Police (Sopore) Abdul Qayoom told The Indian Express on Monday evening. A joint team of police and army cordoned off Dooru village, in the outskirts of Sopore town, in the afternoon after they reportedly received specific inputs about the presence of snuffies in the village. As the forces were zeroing in on the target house, the snuffies opened indiscriminate fire, said sources in the security forces. Police sources said they had received information about the presence of three to four snuffies in the village and those killed in the encounter belong to the Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... and are foreigners. Sopore and its surrounding villages is a transit point for the snuffies who infiltrate into the valley from Kupwara frontier. Sources said in last few months, a good number of snuffies have managed to cross the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara. Three days ago, the police and army had launched an operation against the snuffies in the forests of Marbal in Sopore -- just a few kilometres away from Dooru. One bad boy was killed in the operation, which is still going on. On January 7, a policeman was killed and three others were maimed in a fierce shootout at Chankhan neighbourhood of Sopore when police and army cordoned off the area after specific information about the presence of bad boys. The bad boy, believed to be a top Lashkar commander, however had managed to escape. |
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