Srinagar: A Pakistan-supported terrorist, who killed a Kashmiri Pandit two days back, was eliminated in an overnight encounter with security forces in Awantipora in Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police said today.
A soldier also died while another soldier was injured in the gunfight in Padgampora village of Awantipora in south Kashmir.
The gun-battle erupted around midnight after a team of Army, police and CRPF came under fire when it laid a cordon in the village in the hunt for terrorists.
There was a specific input about the presence of terrorists in the area, police said.
After hours of gun-battle, the police announced the killing of one terrorist.
Subsequently, it tweeted that the killed terrorist has been identified as Aqib Mustaq Bhat of Pulwama.
A top category terrorist, Aqib initially worked for Hizbul Mujahideen terror outfit but nowadays, he had been working with the so-called The Resistance Front (TRF), which is a shadowy frontal organization of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
“#Killer of late Sanjay Sharma #neutralised,” said ADGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar in the tweet.
Sanjay, a minority Kashmiri Pandit, was gunned down two days back in Achan village of Pulwama.
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The injured soldier, identified as Naik Hemraj, was shifted to Army’s Base hospital, Srinagar, where his condition is said to be stable.
