Scores of people gathered in a narrow street in Srinagar’s Sarai Bala locality on Tuesday morning to offer funeral prayers in absentia to the two militants killed last night and they alleged it was “staged”.
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The group’s operations chief, Saifullah, and one of his associates were killed on May 23 at a hideout in Srinagar, police said, without identifying the second rebel.
Security forces were on high alert after militants struck early on Monday, first such attack after a lull of three years in Srinagar.
The encounter took place hours after twin militant attacks in Srinagar had left three policemen, including an officer, dead.
Police say they’ve killed the operations head of a major militant group in the Indian portion of Kashmir in an overnight gunbattle.
“The verification will be done to ascertain the identity of the tenants”, DIG Central Kashmir, Ghulam Hassan Bhat told KNS. However, a Police official sustained a minor injury. Sources said after the gunfight, the police arrested the son of the owner of the house, where the militants were killed. “Or the house owners, before they rent their houses, can ask the police to verify their tenants”, the senior police officer said.
Srinagar witnessed two attacks on policemen on Monday.
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Dismissing rumours that the two killed were local civilians, the DIG said, “they were foreigners and have been staying in the house from the last five days”.
