Militant emerges from debris, killed in retaliatory fire :Veteran Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS Retd.

Militant emerges from debris, killed in retaliatory fire

Srinagar, February 24 -A day after the encounter between hiding
militants and the security forces ended in Sopore, a militant was
gunned down after he emerged from the rubble of three houses
and opened fire at the troops engaged in search operation this
afternoon.
The troops had already recovered the body of another militant
from the debris after the search operations were resumed this
morning and recovered three AK rifles. The identity of the
militants whose bodies were recovered from the encounter
scene was yet to be ascertained, Defence spokesperson Lt-Col.
JS Brar said.
When combing operations were going on today, an armed
militant emerged from the debris and tried to attack the
troopers, sources said.
The militant was,however,killed in retaliatory fire by the
troops, sources said.This was the first time that militants
were able to launch an attack during the combing operations
after the encounter. The militants who had engaged the troops
in the encounter since Monday night, had killed a Captain after
he was trapped in the cluster of houses during the search
operations. When trying to contact him on his cell phone
yesterday, his colleagues were threatened by the militants who
had killed the officer and took away his phone.
“The combing operations are being done with utmost care to
avoid any damage due to the presence of any explosives in the
debris,” police sources said. The sources said the militants
belonged to different outfits, including the Hizbul Mujahideen,
the Lashkar-e-Toiba and the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.