TIL Desk/National/Srinagar/ The Indian Army on Tuesday killed yet another militant linked to the Pulwama attack that took away the lives of 40 CRPF troopers earlier this year. Despite losing four soldiers in past 24 hours in Jammu and Kashmir, the Army was successful in killing the Jaish man whose car was used in the February 14 attack.
The Jaish-e-Muhammad militant whose car was used in the Lethpora terror attack was killed on Tuesday in a gun fight with the security forces in the Anantnag district, police said.
Sajad Ahmad Bhat, JeM militant, whose car was used in the suicide bombing in the Lethpora area of Pulwama which killed 40 Central Reserve Police Force troopers and put the two neighbours on the brink of a major showdown, was among the two militants killed in Waghama.
“Sajad Ahmad Bhat alias Afzal Guru had joined militancy days before the Lethpora terror attack. He belonged to Marhama village,” police sources added. A soldier was also killed and two others injured in the Waghama gunfight, the police said.
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