Two militants involved in recent attack on CRPF killed in gunfight in Srinagar
In the gunfight that lasted for several hours, two policemen and a CRPF personnel were also injured. They are reported to be stable.
FIVE DAYS after a CRPF man was killed and another injured in Srinagar, police said two Pakistani Lashkar-e-Toiba militants involved in the attack were killed on Sunday.
Two policemen and a CRPF personnel were injured in the gunfigh
According to IGP Vijay Kumar, the two ultras belonged to the Al-Badr outfit.
Two Al-Badr militants were killed in an overnight encounter with security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Thursday, April 27, 2022.
Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Pulwama of south Kashmir on Wednesday following inputs about the presence of militants there, a police official said.
He said the search operation turned into an encounter after the hiding militants fired upon the forces who retaliated.
After the initial firing, the operation was halted to evacuate civilians, the official said.
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After the civilians were evacuated, the exchange of firing resumed and a militant was killed on Wednesday night, while a soldier was injured, he said.
As the firing continued during the night, another militant was killed, the official said.
Inspector general of police (IGP), Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said the two ultras belonged to the Al-Badr outfit.
"Both killed terrorists identified as local terrorists namely Aijaz Hafiz and Shahid Ayub, of Al-Badr outfit. 02 AK rifles recovered. They had been involved in series of attacks on outside labourers in Pulwama in the month of March-April 2022," the IGP said in a tweet.
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