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Teacher, SPO killed in south Kashmir
KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 10/19/2017 12:21:59 PM
SRINAGAR, Oct 18: A teacher and a Special Police Official (SPO) were killed by unidentified persons at Shopian and Tral respectively.
A police spokesman in a statement said SPO was killed by militants at Tral this evening.
He was identified as Abdul Haleem Kohli son of Fateh Kohli. Kohli was at home, when militants opened fire on him at Gutroo Village in Tral, and killed him on the spot. He was posted at Aripal tehsil in Tral sub division.
A teacher was found dead with slit throat in Wathoo village of Shopian in south Kashmir on Wednesday, police said.
An official said Aijaz Ahmad Lone, a teacher by profession, was found dead under mysterious conditions near Lar Maadan Stadium in Wathoo area today morning.
Lone, he said, was a resident of Gatipora village of the district. Reports added that Lone had left his house in Gatipora last night and did not return. Some reports said a note, apparently left by the militants, was found on his body along with a cell phone. The note in Urdu, had accused the slain for the killing of three militants.
Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militants Zahid Mir of Ganowpora, Asif Ahmad Pal of Kathokalan and Irfan Abdullah Ganai of Heff village of Shopian were killed in a gunfight in Gatipora on October 9.
Lone, who was a teacher at Kathalan middle school, lived in the vicinity of the encounter site in Gatipora. “Zahid and Asif belonged to Hizb while Irfan was affiliated with LeT,” a police official had said. Police in the district, however, maintained that Lone was an over ground worker of the insurgents and was killed owing to infighting.