Abid Bashir
Srinagar (NVI): An unidentified terrorist was killed in an ongoing encounter at Meej area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police official said today.
A police official said that acting on a specific tip-off about the presence of terrorists in Pampore of Puwlama district, joint teams of police, Army and CRPF laid a siege in the village early this morning. “When the security forces zeroed in on a suspected spot, the hiding terrorists opened fire triggering an encounter. The terroritsts opened a heavy volume of fire that was retaliated,” the official said.
He added that an unidentified terrorist was killed and the operation is still on.
Kashmir Zone police tweeted in this regard and stated, “In an ongoing encounter at Meej, Pampore, one militant has been killed whose identity is being ascertained.”
This year so far, 95 terrorists including top commanders of Hizbul Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Toiba have been killed which includes Reyaz Naikoo, the chief operational commander of Hizb, Bashir Koka of Lashkar and Abdur Rehman alias Fouji Bhai of Pakistan, who was an IED expert of Jaish.
Figures suggest that at least 62 terrorists have been killed since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in Kashmir from March 20.
-CHK
