Top intelligence sources to News18: “After the previous attacks, a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) was developed. As the forces retaliated strongly, the terrorists fled. Search is on."
According to police, Bhat was involved in killing of local army personnel Umer Fayaz of Kulgam and had hurled a grenade upon non-local labourers in Hermain, in which two non-local labourers were killed. "He was also involved in killing of a Kashmiri Pandit Sunil Kumar Bhat and injuring another Kashmiri Pandit Pretimber Nath of Shopian.
Deaths of three civilians allegedly in the military’s custody in the aftermath of the DKG ambush shall haunt the security forces. Holding up the mutilated bodies of soldiers, defaced by terrorists, is not an excuse