Srinagar
Thousands of people on Monday participated in funeral prayers of slain Lashkar-e- Toiba militant Ishfaq Majeed Mir in north Kashmir’s Sopore town.
Pic: Junaid Bhat
Reports said that thousands of people including women and children attended the funeral prayer of slain militant in Brath village of Sopore.
Pro-freedom and pro-Islam slogans were raised by the mourners as the body was marched towards the local graveyard.
Ishfaq was killed along with an associate in a 55-hour-long gunfight with the forces in Babagund village of Langate area of north Kashmir’s Handwara town on Sunday.
Five forces personnel and a civilian were also killed during the gunfight. Eleven forces personnel including a CRPF officer were injured in the gunfight.
