Srinagar: Police said only three bodies have been recovered from the Baramulla encounter site.
Earlier, police said Fourth militant was killed on Friday morning.
A total of three bodies were recovered from the encounter site, a police officer said.
While the police have identified only one militant, Yousuf Kantroo, Identification of other two militants is officially awaited even as they are said to be Hilal and Faisal Hafiz.
The bodies recovered yesterday included that of the top commander of Lashker-e-Toiba, Yousuf Kantroo, who according to police had been active from last 22 years.
The encounter had ensued at Malwah area of the district around 4 a.m. on April 21 after a joint team of Police and Army (62RR) launched a joint cordon and search operation in area.
“During the search operation as the joint search party reached the suspected spot, the hiding (militants) fired indiscriminately upon them in which four (04) armymen including one officer received minor injuries.
The fire was effectively retaliated, leading to an encounter,” a police spokesperson said had in a statement.
"Later on Baramulla Police headed by SSP Baramulla also joined in the operation. One policeman from Baramulla district also got injured in the encounter who was later on shifted to Army’s base hospital in Srinagar.”
(GNS)
