8-year-old boy among two killed, five ultras arrested in J

Srinagar, Mar 6 (UNI) An eight-year-old boy was among two people killed and a girl was wounded while security forces arrested five militants, including a resident of Pakistan, in Jammu and Kashmir overnight.

An official spoksman said militants hurled a hand grenade towards the house of one Ghulam Mohiuddin at Kushal Chatroo in Doda district of Jammu region late last night.

It exploded inside the house killing an 8-year-old boy Sajjad Ahmed Wani while his a 6-year-old cousin Rubia was critically wounded. She has been hospitalised.

Police extracted the body of Jamal Uddin from Jehlum river in Baramulla this morning. He was missed from February 28.

A police spokesman said nformation was received that an injured militant, Mohammad Mansoor alias Abu Umar, a resident of Gujranwala, Pakistan, was being brought here for treatment from Sopore.

He said police and 52 RR personnel launched a joint-operation at Sopore, about 50 km from here in north Kashmir, to nab the militant.

The spokesman said after a long wait, a vehicle in which the injured militant and four others were travelling, was searched.

All the five were arrested along with one AK 56 rifle and other arms and ammunition, he added.

He said the militant was injured in an encounter with security forces at Sumbal, yesterday, in which another militant was gunned down.

The militants were involved in the killing of about a dozen counter-insurgents in Sumbal and Hajan area of the north Kashmir in the recent past.

A police spokesman said security forces recovered seven wireless sets, one ak magazine, two pistols and 15 detonators at Haraly, Surankote, in Poonch district from a hideout. No one was arrested.

UNI