Two Local Militants Killed in overnight Rainawari Srinagar Encounter, Arms & Ammunation Recovered

Srinagar, 30 March 2022,(KAT) : Two militants killed in Rainawari gunfight have been identified by police as residents of Bijbehara area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district.

Reports Reaching—(Kashmir Abb Tak) that two killed local militants identified duo as Rayees Ahmad Bhat son of Abdul Hameed Bhat of Shahbad Veeri Bijbhera and Hilal Ahmad Rah alias Shaboo son of Safeer Ahmad Rah of Kuthipora Waghama Bijbehara.

A top police official also told that Rayees had gone missing on 8th August last year while Rah went missing on 18th October same year. Both were affliated with Lashkar-i-Toiba and were category-C militants.

" Before joining militant ranks, Rayees was running an online news portal VNS," the officer said.

Pertinently police in a tweet said that two militants were killed in a brief shootout at Rainwari here at around 1:00a—(KAT)