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Eight LeT militants arrested for threatening locals with posters in Sopore

Eight Lashkar-e-Taiba militants were arrested from Sopore area of Kashmir’s Baramulla district for threatening locals with posters, a senior official said on Tuesday



Photo by Waseem Andrabi/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
Photo by Waseem Andrabi/Hindustan Times via Getty Images 

Eight Lashkar-e-Taiba militants were arrested from Sopore area of Kashmir's Baramulla district for threatening locals with posters, a senior official said on Tuesday.

"We have arrested eight LeT militants for posting threatening posters in Sopore and adjoining areas," the official said.

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Posters have come up in parts of Kashmir which talk of "civil curfew" and ask people to enforce civil "disobedience".

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Four members of a family, including a baby girl, were injured last week when terrorists attacked a house in Sopore.

Two men went to the residence of a prominent fruit merchant in Sopore, Hamidullah Rather, to intimidate him. Not finding him there at home, the terrorists shot and injured Rather's family members including 2 1/2-year-old granddaughter Asma Jaan, who is critical.

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