This Article is From Oct 19, 2022

Terrorist Involved In 2 Non-Locals' Killing Dies In Kashmir Anti-Terror Op

Incriminating material, including arms and ammunition, were seized from the encounter site.

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Two labourers from Kannauj area of Uttar Pradesh were killed in a grenade attack early Tuesday

Srinagar:

A Lashkar-e-Taiba "hybrid terrorist", who was arrested following the death of two labourers in a grenade blast in Shopian, has been killed in an anti-terror operation in Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Wednesday.

"Based on disclosure of arrested hybrid terrorist and in continuous raids by police and security forces, another contact has been established between terrorists and SFs at Nowgam, Shopian, in which hybrid terrorist Imran Bashir Ganaie (was) killed by firing of another terrorist," Kashmir Zone police said in a tweet on Wednesday.

It said incriminating material, including arms and ammunition, were seized from the encounter site.

"The search operation is still going on," police said.

Two labourers from Kannauj area of Uttar Pradesh were killed in a grenade attack early Tuesday at Harmain in Shopian. Police arrested two people, including Ganaie, for their involvement in the incident.

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"Hybrid terrorists" are unlisted radicalised people who carry out terror strikes and slip back into their routine lives often without leaving any trace.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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