Srinagar, Jun 03 (KNS): Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday said that a militant and his “active associate” were  late Sunday night killed in a brief shootout in south Kashmir’s Shopian district.

In a statement issued on Monday the police  said “during the preceding night, security forces at a checkpoint on Shopian Turkawangom Road at Mool Chitragam intercepted a Tavera vehicle,” adding that ‘the militants boarding the vehicle opened fire from inside on the security forces which was retaliated and in retaliation one militant identified as Firdous Ahmad Bhat and an “active associate” Sajad Ahmad who was driving the vehicle was killed.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel

Saying that both of them were the residents of Kulgam district, the police in its statement further said “one more militant taking advantage of darkness managed to flee from spot”.

“According to police records, Bhat was a listed militant. Their bodies have been handed over to their legal heirs after completion of medico-legal formalities”, reads the police statemt

Claiming recovery of incriminating material including arms & ammunition  from the spot, Police in its statement said ‘all the materials have been taken into case records for further investigation and to probe their complicity in other crimes’. (KNS)