Grenade

Grenade event in Jammu & Kashmir, Aloochi Bagh area of Srinagar District area, India on Mon 23rd August 2021

23rd August 2021

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A special Police team comprising of 10 Policemen from the Special Operations Group (SoG) killed two most wanted The Resistance Front (TRF) militants, identified as Abbas Sheikh, the TRF chief for Kashmir and his deputy Saqib Manzoor of Barzulla, Srinagar District of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in an encounter in Aloochi Bagh area of Srinagar District of J&K on August 23, reports Daily Excelsior. Saqib was the man behind recruiting youth into militancy in Srinagar and Abbas Sheikh, a resident of Kulgam District, who joined militancy in 2005. Abbas was arrested twice but he got recycled into militancy and was TRF chief at present. Both the slain militants were involved in recruiting youth, lobbing grenades and killing political workers and policemen in Srinagar city in J&K, said Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir Vijay Kumar.

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