
Day 2- ‘Militants’ Killed in Shopian Encounter Remain Unidentified
Qazi Shibli
At Around 2:45 am on 18 July, a cordon party of the Indian Army was laying cordon and search operation around the Amshipora locality of south Kashmir's Shopian district when they came under heavy fire, Ajay Katoch, a brigadier with the Indian Army told the Media on Sunday.
The brigadier was briefing the media on the encounter that raged in the Amshipora area of Shopian in Kashmir on Saturday.
The Government Forces said that three militants had been killed during the encounter.
Soon after the encounter, at least five families, from Shopian, as confirmed by The Kashmiriyat, whose sons are active Militants were called for identification of the three slain, however, all have rejected the three being their kin.
Three families of active militants from Ramnagri Shopian,...
