Lagatar24 Desk
Jammu, April 28: As many as, 62 terrorists have been killed so far this year in several confrontations in Jammu and Kashmir. According to the authorities, 47 of those arrested were locals. Inspector-General of Police (Kashmir), Vijay Kumar, stated that 32 terrorists were neutralised within three months of joining the ranks of various terror groups.
“Due to enhanced Humint, Techint and focused operations, the surviving rate of terrorists is drastically decreasing,” Kashmir Zone Police tweeted quoting Kumar.
The Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) claimed 39 of the 62, while the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) claimed 15. Both are Pakistan-based terrorist organisations. Eight were from the locally active Hizbul Mujahideen (six) and Al-Badr (one) (two).
Meanwhile, an encounter in Pulwama early this morning claimed the lives of two Al-Badr members. After an encounter with a joint team of police and Army officers, they were identified as Aijaz Hafiz and Shahid Ayub, and two AK weapons were retrieved. Between March and April of this year, Hafiz and Ayub were implicated in a series of attacks on labourers from outside Jammu and Kashmir, according to Kumar.
