Jammu (TIP)- Two Pakistani terrorists, reportedly belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammad group, and an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of the CISF were killed and five have so far been injured in a pre-dawn encounter with militants that broke out in Sunjuwan area of Jammu on April 22. Locals in the area panicked with the rattle of AK-47 from both sides early on Friday morning. Intelligence sources informed that the police, already alert for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit in Samba district on Sunday, received an input about presence of two terrorists inside a home in the area.

The police had surrounded the area at midnight after confirming the presence of the ultras. Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Mukesh Singh said that the police had laid a cordon in the area after inputs about presence of terrorists. “The ultras started firing on the security forces in the dark due to which one personnel died and some were injured. We believe they are hiding inside a home. We had inputs on basis of which the operation was started” said Mukesh Singh. The injured police personnel were shifted to Government Medical College Jammu.

In 2018, JeM ultras had attacked a vital army installation at Sunjuwan in a similar pre-dawn attack in which six soldiers were killed along with three ultras.

LeT’s longest surviving commander killed in encounter in J-K’s Baramulla

Srinagar: Top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commander Yousuf Kantroo, one of the longest surviving terrorists in the Valley, was among three militants killed in Baramulla district on Thursday, April 21, police said.  Kantroo was involved in the killings of several security forces personnel as well as civilians and was among the top-10 most wanted ultras in the Kashmir valley, they said.

With Kantroo’s killing, the security forces achieved a major success, a police spokesman said. He said acting on specific information about the presence of terrorists in the Malwah area of Baramulla in north Kashmir, security forces launched a cordon and search operation there.

As the search party reached the suspected spot during the operation, the hiding terrorists fired indiscriminately at them, injuring four soldiers, including one officer, and a policeman, the spokesman added. In the ensuing encounter, three terrorists of proscribed terror outfit LeT, including dreaded terrorist commander Kantroo, were killed and their bodies retrieved from the gunbattle site, he said.       Source: TNS