3 Terrorists Killed Near Srinagar, 1 Was Behind Police Bus Attack: Cops

Three terrorists, including a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorist involved in an attack on a police bus earlier this month, were gunned down by security forces during an overnight encounter on the outskirts of Srinagar, the police said. Three policemen and a CRPF jawan were injured in the shootout in Panthachowk, they said.

One of the killed terrorists has been identified as Suhail Ahmad Rather, a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorist who was involved in an attack on a police bus near a police camp at Zewan on the outskirts of Srinagar, leaving three policemen dead.

With this operation, the police said that all the terrorists involved in the deadly attack on Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police personnel, have been eliminated.

This is the third encounter within 36 hours and the number of terrorists killed has risen to nine.

Earlier, six terrorists, including two Pakistan nationals, were shot dead in two separate encounters with the security forces in the Anantnag and Kulgam districts of Jammu and Kashmir.

Three policemen had died and over a dozen were injured after terrorists resorted to heavy firing on the bus in the highly secure area that houses several camps of various security forces on December 13.

The attack took place days after two policemen were killed after terrorists opened fire at a police team in Kashmir's Bandipora district. Two policemen were critically injured and were shifted to a hospital where the doctors declared them dead on arrival. The incident took place in Bandipora's Gulshan Chowk on December 10.

This was the second major terrorist attack in the valley after the recent spate of targeted attacks on migrant workers and members of the minority communities in Kashmir. All the terrorists behind the target killings have been killed in a series of encounters in the last two months, the police had said.