Braving Rain, Thousands Join Slain Ishfaq's Funeral in Sopore

March 4, 2019 by News Desk

March 04

Shabir Khan

Thousands of people on Monday reached Sopore to attend the funeral prayers of a local Lashkar e Taiba h militant who was killed in an encounter in Langate area of North Kashmir’s Kupwara district.

Locals told The Kashmiriyat that thousands of people defying the cold thronged the native of Ishfaq Majeed Mir in Brath Kalan area of Sopore to attend the funeral of the slain Militant.

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As per reports available to The Kashmiriyat, 23 year old Ishfaq Ahmad Mir son of Abdul Majeed Mir resident of Gund Mohalla Brath Kallan Sopore, had joined Militant ranks in July last year.

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Locals said that the body of Ishfaq was recovered from the encounter site in Babgund village of Handwara on Sunday afternoon along with his foreign associate after a 62 hour gunfight- Photo/ Shabir Khan~ The Kashmiriyat

Shabir Khan/ The Kashmiriyat — “Six round of funeral prayers were offered by tens of thousands of people for the slain militant,” eyewitnesses told The Kashmiriyat- Photo/ Shabir Khan~ The Kashmiriyat