Three terrorists were killed in an encounter in Kashmir's Anantnag on Saturday. The Army officials claimed recovery of one AK 47, two pistols and other war from the encounter site.

The army personnel worked on specific intelligence inputs through which the presence of three terrorists in the built-up area of Kargom, Ranipora of Anantnag district, Ladkipura was estimated. Later, through sources, a cordon and a search operation was launched by Rashtriya Rifles along with JKP & CRPF at 13:00 hours for encounter. The Army briefed “On seeing the movement of security forces, the terrorists tried to escape through a nallah. The troops immediately repositioned and readjusted the cordon and asked the terrorists to surrender. However, the terrorists resorted to heavy firing on the Security Forces and a fire fight ensued.” During the exchange of fire three terrorists namely; Arif Ahmad Hajjam of LeT, Basit Gani of HM and Sohail Ahmad Bhat were neutralized. While two of the eliminated terrorists belonged to Anantnag district and third was from Pulwama.

Terrorist Arif Ahmad Hajjam was involved in brutal killing of Hav Manzoor Beigh of 162 Territorial Army Battalion on June 6, 2019. This terror attack took place while the army personnel was on leave, as per the sources suggest. Earlier, a nocturnal encounter at Redwani village of Kulgam district in south Kashmir between security forces and terrorists in the wee hours of Friday morning. Meanwhile, it is said to be the fifth encounter in Kashmir, in previous encounters, security forces claimed they have killed more than 5 terrorists.

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