Ahead of the high-level security review meeting chaired by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Srinagar on Wednesday, a joint team of security forces eliminated four more terrorists, including three Jaish-e-Mohammad and one Lashkar-e- Tayyeba terrorist, in twin encounters in the South Kashmir district of Shopian.
In a separate incident a civilian was killed after a policeman's rifle went off accidentally in the Hall area of Pulwama.The civilian has been identified as Mohammad Asif Padroo son of Mohd Ayub Padroo resident of Poterwaal Shopian. The police cop was later arrested by the police.
According to a police spokesman, "all three JeM terrorists neutralised in a joint operation launched late Tuesday evening in village Drach Keegam area of Shopian were categorised terrorists.They were involved in several terror crime cases including attacks on Police/SFs and civilian atrocities.
The terrorists have been identified as Zubair Maqbool Wani resident of Doompora Keegam, Jamsheed Ahmad Magray resident of Rajpora & Hanaan Bin Yaqoob @ Saqib resident of Kareemabad Pulwama.
As per police records, terrorists Hanan Bin Yaqoob and Jamsheed were involved in recent killing of SPO Javed Dar on 02/10/2022 at Pinglana area of Pulwama. They were also involved in killing of an outside labourer from West Bengal in Gadoora. Besides, terrorist Jamshed was involved in Ratnipora terror attack where he shot & injured two outside labourers. In another operation launched in the Moolu area of Shopian, a local LeT terrorist identified as Arif Rashid Wani resident of Shirmal was eliminated by the security forces.
Security forces recovered arms & ammunition including 04 AK series rifles, 01 Pistol, 08 AK magazines, 04 Pistol magazines & other incriminating material from both the encounter sites.