Militants shot dead an off duty solider of Territorial Army (TA), identified as Mohammad Rafi Yatoo in Warpora area of Sopore in Baramulla District on April 6, reports Daily Excelsior. Yatoo was critically injured and was rushed to Sub District Hospital Sopore where he was declared dead on arrival.
Meanwhile, one of the two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) militants killed in a gunfight with the Security Forces (SFs) on April 6 in Shopian District was reportedly an M.Tech student from Ganderbal District, reports Greater Kashmir on April 7. The slain student-turned-militant was identified as Rahil Rashid Sheikh and the other militant as Bilal Ahmad. Earlier SAIR had reported that two militants were killed in an encounter at Parguchi village in Shopian District on April 6.