LeT claims responsibility for Kupwara encounter, threatens of more attacks

Claiming responsibility for Kupwara encounter in which eight Army personnel, including a Major, and 17 militants were killed, Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit has threatened to intensify attacks across the Kashmir valley. "LeT will continue to render sacrifices for the freedom of Kashmir," the outfit spokesman Abdullah Gaznavi said maintaining that the coming days in Kashmir would prove "dearly for Indian forces.
" "The operation in Kupwara should serve as an eye-opener for New Delhi. India should understand that the freedom struggle in Kashmir is not over.
It is active with full force," Gaznavi told a local English daily here. The spokesman said its fighters were involved in the five-day long encounter in Kupwara forest.
"The army had launched a combing operation in Chowkibal forests of Kupwara district on March 20. However, LeT had already received information about the army movement and laid an ambush in the forest," the spokesman said.