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Hamza Burhan, believed to beryllium 1 of the masterminds down the 2019 Pulwama panic attack that claimed the lives of implicit 40 CRPF personnel, was killed connected Thursday (May 21, 2026) erstwhile chartless gunmen opened occurrence connected him successful Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), sources said.
Burhan alias Arjumand Gulzar Dar, alias Doctor, a commandant of the Al Badr panic group, was designated arsenic a violent by India successful April 2022 for his engagement successful a bid of panic acts successful Jammu and Kashmir.
He had been surviving undercover arsenic a teacher successful PoK pursuing the Pulwama attack.
According to police, Burhan, a main of a backstage assemblage successful Gojra, Muzaffarabad (about 135 km from Islamabad), was targeted erstwhile helium came retired of his assemblage connected Thursday (May 21, 2026) morning.
The attackers fired aggregate shots astatine adjacent range, they said.
"The main sustained 3 bullets to the head. He was taken to a adjacent infirmary successful captious condition, wherever helium was enactment connected a ventilator," constabulary told reporters.
However, sources told PTI that Burhan died pursuing the attack.
The constabulary besides claimed to person arrested a fishy and recovered the limb utilized successful the attack.
"After committing the crime, a fishy was fleeing connected a motorcycle erstwhile section men overpowered him and handed him implicit to the police," an eyewitness said.
Dar, calved successful 1999, hailed from Ratnipora, Pulwama, successful Jammu and Kashmir. He went to Pakistan connected valid documents, wherever helium joined the Al Badr panic group. According to the Union Home Ministry, Dar was an progressive violent and commandant of Al Badr. Since going to Pakistan, Dar had been motivating younker to articulation Al Badr and backing the outfit's panic activities.
