Abid Bashir
Srinagar (NVI): Four more terrorist were killed in an operation that started yesterday afternoon at Bandpawa in Chitragam area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district, taking the total number of terrorists killed in the encounter to five, defence officials said.
A security official said that the operation was resumed with the first light of the day today, amid heavy exchange of firing from both the sides.
“The bodies of the terrorists have been retrieved and their identity and affiliation is being ascertained,” the official said, adding that the arms and ammunition have been recovered from them.
Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kashmir range, said that all the recent encounters were clean and zero collateral damage was ensured.
This year so far, 102 terrorists including top commanders of Hizbul Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba have been killed which includes Reyaz Naikoo, the chief operational commander of Hizbul, Bashir Koka of Lashkar and Abdur Rehman alias Fouji Bhai of Pakistan, who was an IED expert of Jaish.
Figures suggest that 72 terrorists, including the five killed today, have been killed since the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic in Kashmir on March 20. In the past two weeks, 32 terrorists have been killed in two southern districts of Shopian and Pulwama.
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