Kupwara: A family from Rang Warnow area of lolab in Kupwara district of North Kashmir on Tuesday claimed that one of the militants killed in Sumlar Bandipora gunfight was their kin.
“We have approached the police that one of the slain militants in Bandipora identified as Mohammad sSidiq Sountra son of Late Rajab Sountra, a resident of Rang Warnow is our kin,” Mohammad Qasim, brother of the slain militant said.
He said that Sidiq has joined militancy in early 90’s and on the photographic evidence we came to know about his killing.
A police official said that the family from Rang Warnow approached them with the claim that one of the militants killed in Bandipora gunfight was their kin.
“We have asked them to approach Bandipora police as this case pertains to them” he said.
Two more families, one from Ganderbal and other from Kulgam, have come forward to claim the bodies of militants, who were earlier dubbed as foreign militants.
The confusion over the identity of the slain five militants erupted after Hizbul Mujahideen in a press statement to a news gathering agency in Srinagar claimed that all the five were locals. They had provided their names and addresses.
Bandipora remains shut for fifth consecutive day over the killings of militants.
