Srinagar, March 10: Police on Thursday claimed to have killed a TRF militant in a brief shootout while two of his associates fled in Hazratbal area of Srinagar on Thursday.
In a statement issued after the encounter, IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar identified the slain militant as Manzoor alias Haider alias Hamza, a Pakistani national. Manzoor, police said, was an associate of TRF commander Mehran and called his killing a “big success”.
This was the 3rd militant to be killed in Kashmir in the day.
Earlier, two unidentified militants were killed in an encounter in south Kashmir’s Pulwama.