SRINAGAR: Two Ansar Ghazwat-ul Hind terrorists were killed in an encounter in Srinagar’s Nowgam area on Wednesday evening, police said.
The slain terrorists were identified as Aijaz Rasool Nazar of
Pulwama and Shahid Ahmad alias Abu Hamza. “They were involved in a recent terror attack on a migrant labourer, Muneerul Islam, from West Bengal on September 2 in Pulwama,” Kashmir Zone Police tweeted quoting ADGP (Kashmir Zone)
Vijay Kumar.
The ADGP said a joint team of the Army’s 50RR and J&K Police launched the anti-terror operation in the area acting on intelligence inputs obtained by police. A search operation was underway till the time of going to press.