His Assassination Was a Huge Success: SSP Shopian
Srinagar, November 11: The police said that the foreign militant killed in the Shopian encounter had been active in the district for the previous eight months, and his death was a major success.
A foreign militant named Kamran Bhai alias Hanees was killed in the encounter on Friday morning, senior superintendent of police Tanushree said during a press conference in Shopian.
She said that he had been active in the area for the last 8 months, and his killing was a significant success for the forces.
“For the last several days we had been receiving intelligence inputs about a Fidayeen attack and target killings in Shopian, and his killing in the encounter today was a big success for us,” she said.
She said they have some leads about the Choudry Gund incident, however, the attack was carried out by Lashkar-e-Toiba, while Kamran was associated with Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Tanushree also said that Kamran was an A+ category militant and further investigation was going on to ascertain in which cases he was directly involved.
