Bandipora: Two Pakistani militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) who had recently infiltrated into Kashmir valley were killed in an encounter (military operation) at upper belt Brar-Aragam village of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Friday, officials said.
They have been identified as Faisal alias Sikander alias Mohsin, a resident of Pakistan & Ukasha again a resident of Pakistan.
Police said that the Technical evidence proved their presence at Chadoora and confirmed their involvement in killing of Rahul Bhat. They had moved back to Bandipora.
The duo had managed to escape during an encounter in the Salinder forest area on last Wednesday when a local Lashkar-e-Taiba militant, identified as Gulzar Ganai (20), was killed, police said in a statement.
Another officer said that the movement of three unidentified militants was tracked in the Bandipora area on May 10 following which an alert was issued.
He further said that Police was tracking a local LeT militant namely Lateef Rather alias Osama who was involved in terror incidents in Srinagar and Budgam from last two months.
While the hunt for Lateef Rather alias Osama is underway, the two militants who managed to escape from the salinder encounter site were killed today, he added.
"In the ensuing exchange of fire, two militants were killed and their bodies were recovered from the site of the encounter."
Police team kept following the footprints of escaped militants, whose presence was confirmed technically in Chadoora area of Budgam, where terror incident took place yesterday on Thursday, the police statement reads.
Thereafter their footprints were again confirmed in Brar, Aragam area of Bandipora today on Friday, it added.
IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar congratulated joint team of Police/SF for tracking down the foreign militants who had recently escaped during an encounter and whose presence was technically confirmed yesterday at terror incident site at Chadoora which confirmed their involvement in killing of Shri Rahul Bhat and said that Lateef Rather alias Osama will be tracked down soon as the hunt for him is vigorously on.
(KNO)
