Kuka Parray's close lieutenant shot dead

Less than a week after gunning down top counter-insurgent Kuka Parray, militants early on Monday morning killed his close lieutenant, Abdul Rashid Khan alias Babar, in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir.

Also see: Top counter-insurgent killed in Baramulla

Elsewhere in the state, four people, including a village defence committee member, were killed, a VDC member was abducted and four ultras were apprehended in the past 24 hours.

Babar, a top counter-insurgent activist of Kuka Parray's ikhwan outfit, was gunned down in Janglat Mandi.

The militants took away Babar's automatic rifle.

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