13 terrorists killed in Jammu and Kashmir encounters
Srinagar, Apr 1 (IBNS): At least 20 persons, including 13 terrorists, four civilians and three army jawans, were killed in three different encounters in South Kashmir's Shopian and Anantnag districts on Sunday.
State Director General of Police S P Vaid said that 13 terrorists, eight of them locals, were killed in these encounters.
Five terrorists and three Indian army soldiers were killed in Kachipora area of Shopian. These terrorists are yet to be identified .
Seven militants were killed in a gunfight that erupted early on Sunday in Dragad village of the district.
"We caught one militant alive and one was killed, in Dialgam Anantnag during interving night of Sunday ," said SP Vaid, DGP, J&K told journalists in Awantipora.
He said all the seven militants killed in Dragad have been identified as locals and their bodies have been claimed by their kin.
The slain militants were identified as Zubair Turray, Ishfaq Ahmad Malik, Yawar Itoo, Nazim Ahmad Dar, Adil Ahmad Thoker, Ubaid Ahmad Malla and Riyaz Ahmad Thokar - all residents of Shopian district.
This is the largest casualty on a single day in Kashmir this year .
The government has ordered all schools and colleges to remain shut in Kashmir as tensions have escalated all over the Valley.
Kashmir university already has suspended class work and examination on Monday .
Meanwhile, the death toll of civilians killed by forces’ action in south Kashmir mounted to four.
(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
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