<p>Two Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants, including its district commander, were killed and two army officers and a policeman injured in a fierce gun-battle in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, 50 km from here, early on Friday.<br /><br />Police sources said that on a specific tip-off a joint team of Army’s 55 Rashtriya Rifles, CRPF’s 18 Battalion and Special Operations Group (SOG) of the police laid a siege around Bubgam, Pulwama.<br /><br />“As security forces launched search operations, the militants resorted to indiscriminate firing which was retaliated, triggering an encounter in which the militants were killed. One army major, a captain and a policeman were also injured,” a senior police official told Deccan Herald.</p>.<p>He identified the militants as Imtiyaz Ahmed Teli alias Fahadullah Kashmiri of Pulwama and Mohammad Aamir Bhat alias Khalid alias Khursheed of Shopian.<br /><br />Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir Range S M Sahai said that Fahadullah was a local militant and the district commander of LeT. “He was active in Pulwama and its adjoining districts. He was earlier arrested by the Srinagar police and after 10 months’ detention was released in June 2010. However, Imtiyaz rejoined the group in 2011 after being motivated by the then divisional commander Rehman Bhai,” Sahai said.<br /><br />The IGP claimed that Fahadullah was involved in a grenade attack at Narwal in November in which one person was killed and five others injured. “The slain militants were also involved in the grenade attack in Bijbehara on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway, in which four tourists were killed in July,” Sahai said.<br /><br />Deputy Inspector General of Police South Kashmir Vijay Kumar said when the injured army major was being evacuated for treatment, a mob attacked the ambulance in Pulwama town injuring a policeman.<br /><br />“In retaliatory action seven people were injured. While one injured is undergoing treatment at Bone and Joints Hospital in Srinagar, six others have been admitted to SMHS hospital,” he said.</p>
<p>Two Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants, including its district commander, were killed and two army officers and a policeman injured in a fierce gun-battle in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, 50 km from here, early on Friday.<br /><br />Police sources said that on a specific tip-off a joint team of Army’s 55 Rashtriya Rifles, CRPF’s 18 Battalion and Special Operations Group (SOG) of the police laid a siege around Bubgam, Pulwama.<br /><br />“As security forces launched search operations, the militants resorted to indiscriminate firing which was retaliated, triggering an encounter in which the militants were killed. One army major, a captain and a policeman were also injured,” a senior police official told Deccan Herald.</p>.<p>He identified the militants as Imtiyaz Ahmed Teli alias Fahadullah Kashmiri of Pulwama and Mohammad Aamir Bhat alias Khalid alias Khursheed of Shopian.<br /><br />Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir Range S M Sahai said that Fahadullah was a local militant and the district commander of LeT. “He was active in Pulwama and its adjoining districts. He was earlier arrested by the Srinagar police and after 10 months’ detention was released in June 2010. However, Imtiyaz rejoined the group in 2011 after being motivated by the then divisional commander Rehman Bhai,” Sahai said.<br /><br />The IGP claimed that Fahadullah was involved in a grenade attack at Narwal in November in which one person was killed and five others injured. “The slain militants were also involved in the grenade attack in Bijbehara on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway, in which four tourists were killed in July,” Sahai said.<br /><br />Deputy Inspector General of Police South Kashmir Vijay Kumar said when the injured army major was being evacuated for treatment, a mob attacked the ambulance in Pulwama town injuring a policeman.<br /><br />“In retaliatory action seven people were injured. While one injured is undergoing treatment at Bone and Joints Hospital in Srinagar, six others have been admitted to SMHS hospital,” he said.</p>
