The perpetrators of terrroist attack on a police bus in Zewan area of Srinagar  in which three police personnel attained martyrdom were eliminated along with four others in two separate encounters in the South Kashmir districts of Anantnag and Kulgam in the last 24 hours in Jammu and Kashmir. Out of four injured soldiers one army personnel succumbed to his injuries during treatment in the hospital. A total number of 24 terrorists including five foreign terrorists have been gunned down by the security forces in the month of December this year.

According to a police spokesman, during past 24 hours, two anti-terrorist operations were carried out in twin districts of South Kashmir resulting in elimination of six terrorists of proscribed terror outfit Jaish-e- Mohammad (JeM) including 02 Pakistani terrorists. Among the killed terrorists, two terrorists were involved in gruesome terror attack on Police Bus at Zewan".

The first operation was launched in Nowgam Dooru area of Anantnag by the joint team of J&k Police, 19RR and 164 Bn CRPF.  In the initial exchange of fire, four security forces personnel including a policeman received gunshot injuries. One Army Jawan succumbed to his injuries and attained martyrdom. The security forces halted the operation to safely rescue  trapped civilians around the encounter site. In the ensuing encounter, 03 terrorists of proscribed terror outfit JeM were killed.

They have been identified as Sultan @Rayees @Mavia (a foreign terrorist), Nisar Ahmad Khanday resident of Dudwangan Kapran and Altaf Ahmad Shah resident of Nathipora Dooru.

As per police records,  several terror crime cases were registered against them including attack on family of a police personnel at Kokagund in which his wife and daughter received injuries.

Addressing a joint press conference  at 2-Sector Hqrs Wuzan by GoC 15 Corps Commander Lt. Gen. DP Pandey, IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar said that, the killed terrorists Altaf and Pakistani terrorist Sultan @Rayees @ Mavia along with another terrorist Suhail Rather were involved in  the gruesome terrorist attack at Zewan Srinagar, in which 03 policemen attained martyrdom and 11 police personnel were injured.

In the second operation in Mirhama area of Kulgam, 03 terrorists of proscribed terror outfit JeM were gunned down by the joint team of 9 RR, 1B Bn CRPF and JKP . Thesalin terrorists have been identified as Shahid @Shahzaid resident of Pakistan (a foreign terrorist), Mohammad Shafi Dar resident of Tral and Uzair Ahmad resident of Mirhama.

As per police records, the killed foreign terrorist Shahid listed among the top most wanted terrorists operating in J&K while as the other two killed terrorists were also categorized terrorists linked with proscribed terror outfit JeM. As per police records, the killed terrorists were part of a group involved in several terror crime cases including attacks on security forces and civilian atrocities. Security forces also recovered a huge cache of arms & ammunition including 02 M-4 rifles, 04 AK-47 rifles from the sites of encounters.