Head of Pakistan based militant group in India Noor Mohammad Tantray gets killed in an encounter with Indian government police and troops. Tensions in the disputed region are running high, with more deaths in 2017 than for a decade.
leader in the Kashmir valley of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) group, Noor was killed in a gun battle after being trapped in a house near the city of Srinagar overnight on Monday into Tuesday, Indian police said in a statement.
Police and troops cordoned off a group of houses at Samboora, “which resulted in a fierce gun battle leading to the elimination of top JeM commander Noor Mohammad Tantray,” the statement said. This was a “significant breakthrough,” it read.
Tantray’s two associates escaped, a police said
The 47-year-old JeM head, who stood just three feet (about 1 meter) tall according to police reports, took over as head of the group in Indian Kashmir in 2016.
According to police he had spent 12 years in jail after being convicted in a case of militancy in 2003 but jumped parole two years later to rejoin JeM.
The region saw the highest casualties this year in over a decade amounting to 350 reported death whereas unofficial data claims to be 210 suspected militants, 57 civilians, and 82 troops.
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