SRINAGAR: Two Al-Badr terrorists were gunned down by security forces in an anti-terror operation in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district early Monday.
The slain terrorists were identified as Imad Muzaffar Wani (21) and Abdul Rashid Thokar (20), said police. Thokar was from Kulgam’s Hasanpora Tabela area and had been active since December 5, 2021. Wani, a resident of Arigam in the same district, had also joined terrorist ranks last year.
IGP (Kashmir Zone)
Vijay Kumar, in a tweet, identified Wani as a “categorized militant” of Al-Badr, adding: “He (Wani) was involved in an attack on police personnel Mushtaq Waggay in Pulwama on December 19, 2021, in which he (Waggay) got seriously injured.”
Late Sunday, a joint team of the Army’s 1RR, J&K Police and CRPF launched a cordon-and-search operation in Hasanpora Tabela based on intelligence inputs about two holed-up terrorists in the area, said a police officer.
A gunfight subsequently broke out between the terrorists and the search party, in which the Al-Badr duo was killed, said the officer, adding that the encounter ended around 2.05am. Two pistols were recovered from the slain terrorists.