Srinagar
The hostel boarders of Sheikh ul Alam Boys hostel at the Zakura campus of Kashmir University (KU) on Sunday offered funeral prayers in absentia for militants killed in a gunfight at Batagund village of Kapran in south Kashmir’s Shopian district.
An eyewitness said the scores of the hostel boarders assembled on the campus and raised pro-freedom slogans and offered the prayers in absentia for the slain militants.
Earlier six militants, civilian and army man were killed during an encounter with army’s 34RR, CRPF and SOG Shopian in Batagund area of Kapran in Shopian. The identity of the slain militants was not immediately known.
