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He said Special Operations Group (SOG) of the local police and army personnel, acting on a specific information, raided Dardpora forest and in the ensuing encounter Usman, a self-styled combined chief of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, Jaish-e-Muhammad, Al-Badr and Hizbul Mujahideen, was killed.
The militant, active in the border belt for the past several years, was the brain behind the attack on the chopper carrying Omar Abdullah at Lolab on June 23 this year, the spokesman said.
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