JAMMU: At least five Pakistani terrorists were killed on Thursday in two separate anti-terror operations, one of which also left 14 security personnel, including a deputy superintendent of police, injured. All the injured men are stable.
A senior police officer from the IGP office said three Pakistani terrorists of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror group were killed during an eight-hour long encounter at Tirsi-Kakrayal village of Reasi district.
He added that 14 security personnel, including five cops, six CRPF men and three Army jawans were injured in the encounter that ended around 5pm.
In north Kashmir’s
Baramulla district, the JeM suffered a jolt when security forces killed two of its members, including one of its oldest militants nicknamed ‘Ali’, at
Sopore. Security forces were acting on specific intelligence inputs about the presence of Jaish terrorists in the area. The encounter at Reasi began after a group of five suspected terrorists travelling in a truck opened fire at Jammu-Srinagar National Highway on Tuesday, injuring a civilian near Kakrayal-Jhajjar Kotli.
While the truck driver and his helper were detained, the three Pakistani terrorists had fled the scene.
One AK-56, loaded magazines, one Chinese pistol and other “incriminating material” was recovered from the site.
“The police, CRPF and Army launched an anti-terror operation after the terrorists fled the scene on Tuesday,” a source said.
