SRINAGAR: With two local terrorists belonging to Lashkar-e-Toiba killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar on Friday, IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar said that a total of 78 terrorists have been neutralised in the valley so far this year.
“Two (a total of two) local terrorists belonging to Lashkar-e-Toiba were killed. With today’s operation, police along with security forces neutralised 78 terrorists in the valley so far this year,” said Kumar in a statement issued today.
He further said, “In these encounters, most of the terrorists (39 out of 78) were affiliated with proscribed terror outfit LeT followed by Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr, Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Ansar Gazwat-ul-Hind.”
