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Two militants killed in Pulwama, a day after Lal Chowk encounter in J-K | A day after the end of 22-hour encounter of two terrorists at Srinagar's Lal Chowk, two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants were shot dead during a four-hour encounter
near Pulwama in Kashmir Valley on Friday. It was the second encounter in the Valley
within last 48 hours. According to Awantipura Superintendent of Police Basheer
Khan, the slain terrorists have been identified as Altaf and Zafoor. Acting on
specific information, security forces launched a combing operation in village
Andrusa. Just as the security forces zeroed in, the militants, whose number could
not be ascertained, opened fire at them prompting the security forces to retaliate.
"The terrorists were asked to lay down their arms and surrender but they continued
to fire with their automatic weapons, which was retaliated against and in the
melee the two terrorists got killed," Khan said. He added that Altaf had been
known to be involved in several previous attacks including one car blast outside
the central jail in Srinagar and an attack on a constable and an SPO in Pampore
town in which the SPO was martyred. "Likewise Zafoor was also involved in many
past encounters and today we have been able to get rid of them,"Khan said. The
terrorists were holed up in a house in Pulwama's Andrusa village which falls under
Pampore, and refused to lay down their arms and began firing at the Border Security
Force (BSF). |
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