Kulgam attack: Attackers identified, will catch them soon, says IGP Kashmir

Kulgam: Inspector General of Police Kashmir range, Vijay Kumar Friday said that Lashkar-e-Toiba and TRF militants are involved in the killing of three BJP men including a youth leader at South Kashmir’s Kulgam district and the police have seized the vehicle used by militants while all attackers have been identified. The IGP said that police will investigate as to why the trio had come to a far off place late evening.
Talking to reporters at the site of the incident, the IGP said yesterday at around 8 pm, militants from the LeT and TRF came in a vehicle and resorted to indiscriminate firing at the BJP youth leader Fida Hussain and his two colleagues.
“Then the militants fled in the same vehicle. We seized the vehicle near Achabal area of Anantnag. With the help of our technical and human intelligence, three militants who carried out the act include a local militant Nisar Ahmed Khanday, Abbas Shiekh, who was earlier with Hizb and later joined LeT, and third one may be a foreigner,” he said.
He said police had provided protection to slain BJP youth leader Fida Hussain and he was lodged at Hotel Dolphin, Pahalgam. “Recently, he gave undertaking that he can roam around without security. Now we are investigating what were they doing in Kulgam area,” he said, adding that at least 1690 BJP workers, leaders, activists were lodged in various hotels while 157 were provided with security cover on the basis of threat perception.
“We urge BJP leaders, workers, activists not to venture out without their security guards and don’t go to areas that are quite far,” he said. The IGP while replying to a query said that operations are on at seven to eight places across South Kashmir. “We will get the militants involved in the act soon,” he said