New Delhi, Jan 1: The body of the third terrorist holed up inside the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Pulwama has been recovered. The body was recovered inside a four-storey building at the CRPF camp in Lethpora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Combing and sanitisation operations at the building is currently on, reports said.
Two Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists, including a Class 10 student – son of a Jammu and Kashmir Police constable, and five CRPF jawans were killed in the pre-dawn attack which unfolded on December 31.
Among the terrorists kill was 16-year-old Fardeen Ahmad Khanday, son of Jammu and Kashmir Police constable Ghulam Mohammad Khandey. Fardeen reportedly even recorded a video in which he talked about the terror plot to target the CRPF camp. The video has now gone viral. “God willing, when this message reaches you, I will already be a guest of my Lord in his heaven,” Fardeen is heard saying in beginning of the eight-minute video. (Also Read: Pulwama Attack: Class 10 Student, Son of J&K Cop, Among Terrorists Who Targeted CRPF Camp)
Fardeen was a resident of Tral, the hometown of Hizbul Mujahideen poster boy Burhan Wani, who was killed in an encounter in July, 2016.
Rajnath Singh Vows Revenge
Meanwhile, Home Minister Rajnath Singh has vowed befitting reply, saying “the sacrifice of “our brave jawans will not go in vain and their valour will be given due acknowledgment”. (Also Read: Amid Heightened Tensions, India-Pakistan Share Details of Nuclear Installations)
“The attack on a CRPF camp in Kashmir was a cowardly attack by terrorists. The sacrifice of our jawans won’t go in vain. The entire nation stands with their families. We are proud of our brave jawans who lost their lives in the fighting back the terrorists,” Rajnath Singh said.