SRINAGAR – Indian troops have martyred key freedom fight commander in theOccupied Kashmir.
As per the media report, a top commander was martyred on Wednesday during afierce firefight, police said, triggering clashes with protestors.
Naveed Jatt, the man killed on Wednesday, had dramatically escaped inFebruary from a hospital in Srinagar where he was brought from jail for acheck-up two years after his arrest. Two police officers accompanying Jattwere killed in a shootout inside the hospital before he was whisked away ona waiting motorbike.
Jatt and another fighter were killed after they were trapped by soldiers,paramilitary forces and a police counterinsurgency unit surrounding thevillage of Chattergam in the central Kashmir valley. “It’s a success, arelief. Naveed Jatt is one among the two militants killed,” top policeofficer Munir Ahmad Khan said. “Jatt murdered two of our colleagues when heescaped (in February),” he said.
Three soldiers were wounded in the gun battle, another police officer said,adding several protestors who hit the streets near the site of firefightwere also injured in police action.