SRINAGAR: Three Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists, including ‘Kamran’, suspected to be linked to the February 14 terror attack on a CRPF convoy, were killed in a fierce 16-hour encounter.
Sources say Kamran had been hunted for years but had managed to stay under the radar as he traveled from village to village to draw young men into terror.
Cops say he plotted the attack on the CRPF convoy in which over 40 soldiers were killed by a 19-year-old suicide attacker, Adil Ahmad Dar, who had joined the Jaish last year. Dar drove near the convoy and detonated 60 kg of RDX stocked in his car.
Several Army and police officials were injured on Monday during an encounter at Pinglan in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district.
Lt Gen KJS Dhillon says while briefing the media that the Pakistan Army was a 100% involved in Pulwama terror attack. I have no doubt, he says.
“58 Jaish militants have been killed last year and 12 have been killed so far this year. We have our focus on Jaish,” says IG Kashmir.
Amit Kumar, the DIG of South Kashmir, received a gunshot wound in his abdomen during the encounter. Amit Kumar has been shifted to an Army hospital and is said to be out of danger.
Major Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal, Hawaldar Sheo Ram and Sepoys Hari Singh and Ajay Kumar died of their injuries.
Personnel of the 55 Rashtriya Rifles, CRPF and the Special Operation Group of the Jammu and Kashmir police were involved in the encounter.The soldiers who were killed belong to the 55 Rashtriya Rifles (RR).
