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Sopore mobile tower attacks: J & K police arrest 4 Hizbul terrorists

by IBNS 04 Jun 2015, 10:34 am

Jammu, June 4 (IBNS) Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday arrested four Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists in connection with the May 24 Sopore Mobile tower attacks.

In all 1,058 towers, out of the 2,903 towers of various telecom companies installed across Kashmir Valley, were  shut down due to attacks and threats by terrorists to landlords in whose premises the equipment were installed, reports said.

In Sopore all but two of the 177 towers were shut down in the wake of a series of attacks by terrorists in which two persons died and three were injured.

Srinagar: IGP Kashmir Syed Javaid Gillani had said on Wednesday that the investigation into the telecom towers attack in Kashmir points that it was the handiwork of Hizbul Mujahideen.

Gillani told that people  affiliated with Hizbul Mujahideen are involved in the attacks.

 
He  also informed that damaged telecom towers have been restored and that 80 percent of towers which were not working have started working.

Last month, Suspected militants had shot dead an employee of a BSNL franchisee and injured two others in Sopore town.