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Six Lashkar-E-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, including a Pakistani involved in slaughtering of civilians, were killed in an encounter on Sunday, along with a soldier and a civilian,
in a village of South Kashmir's Shopian district, police said. The police said that based on a credible input about the presence of terrorists in Batagund area of Kapran of Shopian
district, a cordon and search operation was launched in the night jointly by the police and security forces in the area. > As the searches were going on, the militants fired upon the
search > party which retaliated effectively leading to an encounter. "Initially, one jawan of 34 RR sustained injuries in the exchange of fire. He was evacuated to the hospital and
is stated to be stable now," the police said. "Another jawan identified as Nazir Ahmad of 34 RR who was grievously injured in the final phase of the encounter has succumbed and
attained martyrdom," the police added. One militant was identified Mushtaq Ahmad Mir of Shopian who, the police said, was involved in motivating innocent youths into the terrorist fold
and also demanding money from public for strengthening Lashker cadre. > The others were identified as Mohammad Abass Bhatt and Khalid Farooq > Malik, from Shopian, Umar Majeed from
Kulgam, Mohd Hameed Wagey and > a Pakistani terrorist, Kafeel. "It was an intelligence-based operation in which six terrorists were eliminated. They were involved in gruesome
killing of civilians and security forces," Inspector General of Police (Kashmir range) Swayam Prakash Pani said after the encounter. > “We have been able to made a considerable dent
in terror groups > operating in the Valley.” Swayam Prakash Pani, Inspector General of Police Two days back, a module of six militants of these two terror groups was eliminated in
Bijbehara in South Kashmir which included one man, who was wanted in assassination of journalist Sujaat Bukhari. > In another encounter, a Jaish-e-Moahmmed militant codenamed >
‘Waseem’ was killed in a separate encounter with security forces > at Khrew in Awantipura district of South Kashmir. In the Shopian encounter, the Pakistani militant codenamed Kafeel was
involved in the killing of a civilian who was kidnapped from Shopian and his throat was slit. The video of this gruesome act was uploaded on social networking sites. > “All the killed six
terrorists were wanted by the law for their > complicity in a series of terror crimes, including attacks on > security establishments and civilian killings in the area. With >
their elimination, all notorious terrorists of the belt have been > successfully eliminated” Police As per the police records, Mushtaq Ahmad Mir alias Hammad had a long history of terror
crimes since 2014. He was a close associate of terrorist commander Zeenat-ul-Islam and was involved in several terror attacks on security establishments and civilian killings. Mohammad Abass
Bhatt was earlier convicted for a murder case and sentenced for five years. Umer Majid Ganai, who had escaped from Batmaloo encounter and whose photo was recently circulated on social media
showing him near clock tower Lal Chowk, was involved in the killing of several policemen and civilians in the area since 2016. He was involved in Pombai Bank guard attack case in which four
policemen and two banks guards had lost their lives in 2017. Mohd Waseem Wagay alias Saifullah was involved in several terror crimes in the area and attacks on the security establishments.
He was part of a terror group involved in the killing of four police personnel in August this year at Shopian and so was Khalid Farooq. > Around the encounter site, one civilian
identified as Nouman Ashraf > Bhat of Bolous Kulgam succumbed to his injuries at a hospital. Four > others injured are stable, the police said. _(With inputs from ANI)_ Published: 25
Nov 2018, 9:11 AM IST