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\nA top Lashkar commander, accused of killing \u2018Rising Kashmir\u2019 editor Shujaat Bukhari in June, and a district commander of the Hizb were among six militants killed in a fierce gunfight in Bijbehara area of Anantnag district, 52 km south of Srinagar, today.<\/p>\n
The police identified the dead as Lashkar commander Azad Malik, alias Daada, of Arwini Bijbehara; Unais Shafi Bhat of Takia Bal, Hizb\u2019s Bijbehara district commander; Firdaus Ahmad Mir, Lashkar\u2019s Pulwama district commander; Basit Ahmad Mir of Khannabal, Lashkar\u2019s Anantnag operative; Shahid Ahmad Malik of Sangam, Anantnag, and Hizb\u2019s Atif Hassan Najar of Waghama, Bijbehara. Malik alias Daada was a confidant of Pakistani Lashkar commander Naveed Jatt. He had joined militancy in December 2016. It is believed Daada and Jatt killed editor Bukhari and his two guards in Srinagar\u2019s Press Enclave on June 14.<\/p>\n
Sources said the police received inputs regarding a meeting of Lashkar and Hizb operatives in Bijbehara area. \u201cAn orchard was cordoned off at 2 am. The militants were hiding in a shed raised on the orchard premises,\u201d a police official said.<\/p>\n
The militants opened fire. \u201cIn the gunfight, that lasted a few hours, all six militants were eliminated,\u201d the official said, adding that there was no collateral damage. The bodies of the militants were handed over to the families after medico-legal formalities. Soon after, restrictions were imposed in parts of Anantnag. Also, mobile Internet services were snapped in most parts of south Kashmir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anantnag A top Lashkar commander, accused of killing \u2018Rising Kashmir\u2019 editor Shujaat Bukhari in June, and a district commander of the Hizb were among six militants killed in a fierce gunfight in Bijbehara area of Anantnag district, 52 km south of Srinagar, today. The police identified the dead as Lashkar commander Azad Malik, alias Daada, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jammu-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48208,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48206\/revisions\/48208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}