Bullet-Riddled Body Of Teenager Recovered in Kashmir’s Shopian
Security forces did not find any militants during the operation, police said.
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Bullet-Riddled Body of Teen Found in Shopian
Police on Sunday recovered a bullet-riddled body of a teenage boy from an orchard in Shopian district of Kashmir.
Gowher Ahmad Dar (17) was found dead in an orchard at Dhobipora in Shopian district at 12 noon, a police official said. He said Dar was shot by unknown gunmen in the head and had apparently died on the spot.
Police have registered a case in this regard and started investigation, he added.
No Militants Found After Security Ops
Security forces on Saturday carried out massive searches in nearly a dozen villages of Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district but did not find any militants during the operation, police said.
Personnel of the army's counter-insurgency Rashtriya Rifles, the state police's Special Operations Group and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force surrounded nearly a dozen villages in the district on Saturday morning and carried out house to house searches.
No firing incident was reported during the operation, police said without giving any further details of the operation.
Since no firing was reported from anywhere during the operation, it is unlikely that any militants were hiding in the villages under the cordon and search operation.
Security forces have carried out such operations over large areas in the past as well and these have been described as "area domination exercises", which in layman terms, means ensuring that the militants do not get a foothold in these areas.
Nine Villages Had Been Cordoned Off
Early Saturday morning – in yet another massive operation to flush out militants in south Kashmir’s Shopian district – security forces cordoned off and searched at least nine villages in the region.
Since May, security forces have carried out a number of similar search operations in Shopian – about 55 km from Srinagar.
According to ANI, the nine villages in Shopian district being currently searched are Chakoora, Mantribug, Zaipora, Pratabpora, Takipora , Ranipora, Ratnipora, Dangam and Wangam.
(With inputs from PTI.)
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