The continuous gunfight that began on night of Wednesday between the security forces and militants ended in a South Kashmir village.
An official said, that the cross fire ended in morning which was started on Wednesday night between security forces and militants in a village of South Kashmir in which two bodies have been recovered.
According to a police officer, the security forces used explosives to demolish a house that was used by militants. The militants were at the centre of the firing for nearly 40 hours.
The officer also said that the house which was used by the militants as a fortified bunker.
The officer said, “Firing between the security forces and the militants has stopped. Two dead bodies were recovered.”
He also added that, the combing oprations were on.
In Hassanpoora village in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district the residents said that at least five other houses were also damaged.
The residents also said that two AK-47 assault rifles and the bodies were recovered when the security forces used bulldozers to remove the rubble of the demolished house.
The Police claimed that three Lashkar-e-Taiba militants were killed in the gunfight on Thursday.
The gunfight was resumed early in the morning when the search was re-started and the cordon around the shootout site further tightened.
The fight between the militants and their killings enhanced the clashes between mobs and the security forces on evening of Thursday and it continued on Friday. A youth who was protesting was killed and another was critically injured who was at some distance away from the gunfight site on Thursday.
In the Anantnag and Kulgam districts to prevent spread of rumours all the mobile phone and Internet services have been suspended.
Abu Dujana, LeT commander, one of the most wanted militants in the state was earlier rumoured to be among the gunmen holed up in the house that was killed by the security forces.
The residents said, he escaped from the hideout in Hassanpoora village, which is near to the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s ancestral Bijbehara town.
But the security officials neither confirmed nor denied if he was among the trapped militants.
--with agency inputs
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