Srinagar: Police on Wednesday claimed that one of the two militants killed in Sopore encounter on Tuesday was a top commander of Lashkar-e-Toiba in north Kashmir.
A police spokesman in a statement issued today said that the identity of the second slain militant was established and he turned out to be Lashkar’s top commander Abu Maaz.
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On Tuesday, police identified one of the militant as Abdul Majeed Mir, 24, son of Bashir Ahmad Mir. Abdul was arrested in a militancy-related case in 2016 but he escaped from a police station in Bomai village of Sopore in the month of June this year.
The two militants were killed in a fierce gunfight in Tujjar area of Sopore on Tuesday afternoon. (PTK)
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