TIL Desk/National/Srinagar/ Nine terrorists of JeM involved in attack on police bus in Pantha Chowk eliminated in last 24 hours, says J-K DGP Dilbag Singh. One of the slain terrorists was involved in the December 13 attack on a police bus in the nearby Zewan area in which three policemen were killed while 11 others were injured.
The encounter in Pantha Chowk on the outskirts of Srinagar city took place after the security forces launched a cordon and search operation following inputs about the presence of terrorists, a police official said.
He said as the searches were going on, the hiding terrorists fired upon a search party of the forces, who retaliated. In the initial exchange of fire, three police personnel and two CRPF personnel were injured.
They were rushed to the Army’s 92 Base Hospital here and their condition is stated to be stable, the official said. In the ensuing encounter three terrorists were killed.
Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said the three belonged to JeM. He identified one of them as Suhail Ahmad Rather, who was involved in the Zewan attack along with two other terrorists, including a Pakistani, who were killed in an encounter in Anantnag on Thursday.
“As revealed during yesterday’s PC, terrorist Suhail was also involved in #ZewanTerrorAttack. All terrorists involved in Zewan attack have been #neutralised,” the IGP said in a tweet.
