Three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants were killed during an anti-militancy operation in south Kashmir’s Shopian on Tuesday.
“The three killed terrorists have been identified as local terrorists of LeT’s Danish Khursheed Bhat, Tanveer Wani and Towseef Bhat. They were involved in several terror crime cases. Terrorist Danish was involved in the recruitment of youth into terror ranks in Shopian,” Additional Director General of Police Vijay Kumar said.
The trio was trapped by a joint team of the security forces at Nagbal area of Shopian during a search operation.
The police said the search team was fired up by the hiding militants, who were engaged in a gunfight, and neutralised.
“Terrorist Danish was involved in the recruitment of youth into terror ranks in Shopian”J&K Police