Suhail Khan
Sopore, Nov 08 : An unidentified militant has been killed in an overnight gunfight in Panipora area of north Kashmir’s Sopore on Friday morning.
Official sources told Kashmir Despatch that one militant has been killed in an operation which commenced yesterday late evening. The operation in the area is still underway.
The official said that the encounter was suspended due to darkness. With the first ray of the morning, the firefight resumed again and in the ongoing operation one militant has been killed however, his body is yet to recovered.
This anti-militancy is joint operation of Army’s 22 RR, SOG and Sopore police.
This marks the third anti-militancy operation in the northern region of Kashmir within the last 24 hours, following the killing of two Pakistani terrorists in two separate gunfights in the Bandipora and Lolab forests on Wednesday.
The first week of November saw the conduct of six anti-militancy operations across the Kashmir Valley, resulting in the killing of five militants.
Pertinently, October month has proven to be a tragic month in Kashmir’s recent history, recording nine civilian deaths due to terror violence. This includes the killings of seven non-local laborers, an army soldier, and a doctor in multiple attacks.
These attacks took place shortly after the first assembly elections in over a decade, marking a significant political shift since the revocation of Jammu & Kashmir’s special status under Article 370.
Suhail Khan is a filmmaker, content writer, and freelance journalist.
