Suhail Khan
Srinagar, June 19: Director General of Police (J&K) Dilbagh Singh on Friday said 50 Hizb militants alone among 102 were killed this year so far in Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing a joint press conference at the army’s Srinagar based 15 Corps headquarters post-South Kashmir gunfights, DGP said this year so far 102 have been killed in various operations.
He said, “There have been only one or two civilian casualties and that’s because of the extra-ordinary restraint exercised the forces on the ground,”.
DGP said that “This year 49 youth had joined various militant ranks of which 27 were killed. It doesn’t give us a pleasure to kill young boys. But if anybody picks up arms we will do what we are doing.”
Pertinently, Eight militants were killed in the last 24 hours in the southern region of Kashmir.
In Meej area of Pampore, three militants were killed, while five militants were slain in another gunfight in Shopian.
June has been the bloodiest month in south Kashmir’s Shopian district where 22 militants have been killed in the last 12 days.
