SRINAGAR: Suspected terrorists militants in held Kashmir shot dead on Saturday the brother of an ex-terrorist militant who became a moderate separatist leader, police said.
He was one of eight people killed in incidents across the region, they said. Abdul Gani Bhat was a supporter of his brother's party, the Kashmir Salvation Movement, which belongs to the moderate wing of the APHC. Police said Bhat was shot dead near his home on the outskirts of Srinagar.
Bhat's younger brother, Zafar Abdul Fateh, was a former top terrorist rebel commander of the region's biggest group, Hizbul Mujahideen, before he gave up arms and formed his own moderate separatist movement. Separately, Indian troops killed two terrorists militants in a clash near Banihal town, 100 kilometres south of Srinagar, police said. Another terrorist militant and a soldier died in clashes elsewhere, police said.
In Kalakote, 120 kilometres northwest of Jammu, suspected terrorists militants ambushed a group of coalmine workers returning home from work late on Saturday, killing three of them and injuring another, police said. The terrorists militants ran away fled after firing at the mine workers. No terrorist militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack. |