TIL Desk/National/Srinagar/ Meanwhile, a Resistance Front (TRF) commander was among five terrorists killed on Wednesday in twin encounters with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district, said Jammu and Kashmir Police. Two encounters took place at Pombay and Gopalpora villages of the Kulgam district.
Besides this, a major tragedy was also averted after arresting two terrorist associates in Pulwama district along with two ready-to-use Improvised Explosive Devices (IED).
“Acting on specific inputs generated by Kulgam Police about the presence of terrorists in twin villages of Kulgam, two anti-terrorist operations were carried out in which five terrorists were eliminated. The killed terrorists include terrorist commander of proscribed terror outfit TRF namely Aafaq Sikander,” the police said.
The police further said that during both the operations, ample opportunities were given to the trapped terrorists to surrender, however, they started firing indiscriminately on the search teams which was retaliated leading to encounters.
