SRINAGAR: Two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, together with a foreigner, who have been killed in an encounter with safety forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Saturday have examined positive for COVID-19, police mentioned.
The samples of the 2 terrorists have been taken for COVID-19 test throughout medico-authorized formalities and their studies got here again positive on Sunday, they mentioned.
The terrorists have been killed in an encounter in Arrah space of Kulgam. An Army man additionally suffered accidents through the gunfight.
“While carrying out the medico-legal formalities, the samples of the slain terrorists were taken and sent for COVID-19 test. Today, the test reports were received from CD Hospital, Srinagar and both the killed terrorists were confirmed as coronavirus positive,” a police spokesperson mentioned on Sunday.
The our bodies of the terrorists can be taken in protecting care ambulance and buried strictly as per the COVID-19 protocol in Baramulla, he mentioned.
According to police, one of many two terrorists was a foreigner and recognized as Ali Bhai alias Hyder. The identification of the second terrorist hasn’t but been ascertained.
The spokesperson mentioned because the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the burials of militants are carried out at designated locations to minimise the danger of individuals contracting the an infection.
Medico-legal formalities, which embrace submit-mortem, DNA and COVID-19 exams, are strictly adopted in respect of such slain militants, he mentioned.
