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Vijay Kumar, The inspector General of Police Kashmir range has said that the Chief Operational commander of Hizbul Mujahideen’s Dr Saifullah has been killed during the encounter that raged at Rangreth area of Srinagar.
Speaking to media at the encounter site, he said “I am 95 per cent sure that the militant killed in the gunfight is Hizb chief operational commander Dr Saifullah who had taken over the reins of Hizb after the killing of its chief Reyaz Naikoo in an encounter in May this year.”
The IGP said a suspect and not the militant has been arrested at the encounter site who is being questioned.
“The encounter is almost over. We are sanitizing the area and clearing it as there may be some leftover grenades.” he said.
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