Hizb Mujahideen chief killed in encounter in J-K
May 06, 2020 14:32
Hizbul Mujahideen chief Riyaz Naikoo killed in encounter in South Kashmir, say officials. He was on the run for eight years, and on Wednesday was trapped by security forces in a village in Kashmir's Pulwama district, prompting authorities to suspend mobile internet services across the Valley, police said.
In a simultaneous gunbattle in another village in the district, two unidentified militants were killed, officials said. Anticipating a law and order problem, mobile internet services were suspended and strict restrictions imposed on the movement of people.
Riyaz Naikoo, operational commander of the banned Hizbul Mujahideen, was trapped in Beighbora village in Pulwama, officials said.
Naikoo, who carries a reward of Rs 12 lakh, became the de facto chief of the terror group after the death of Burhan Wani, the poster boy of militancy in the Valley, in July 2016. Naikoo had managed to escape the police dragnet thrice in Shopian in south Kashmir. -- PTI
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