Srinagar: The killer of a Kashmiri Pandit was today gunned down along with two other terrorists of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) by the security forces in Kashmir, police said.
The three terrorists were killed in Munjh Marg village of Shopian district in an encounter that took place following specific inputs about their presence there.
As soon as the security forces laid cordon around the suspected hideout, the terrorists lobbed grenades and fired indiscriminately, officials said.
While avoiding any collateral damage, the security forces carried out a surgical operation in which all the 3 hiding terrorists were killed, the officials added.
“During the search operation, as the joint search party approached towards the suspected spot, the hiding terrorists fired indiscriminately upon the joint search party which was retaliated effectively leading to an encounter,” said a police spokesman.
“In the ensuing encounter, three local terrorists were killed,” he added.
Incriminating materials, arms & ammunition, including an AK-47 rifle, two pistols and two grenades were recovered from the site of the encounter, the police said.
The police identified the slain terrorists as Mohammad Lateef Lone, Umer Nazir Bhat and Danish Hussain Kakroo.
“Killed terrorist Lateef was involved in killing of a Kashmiri Pandit Puran Krishan Bhat,” the police spokesman said.
Bhat was shot dead on October 15 near his residence in Chowdhury Gund village in Shopian.
Terrorist Umer Nazir was involved in several terror crime cases, including the killing of Bahadur Thapa of Nepal, the spokesman said.
Lauding the operation, Additional Director General of Police (Kashmir) Vijay Kumar said “all the terrorist modules involved in civilian killings in the last three years have been neutralized and there is only one left which will be neutralized soon.”
