Close on the heels of the surrender of 19 top terrorists, 11 hardcore terrorists, including three top commanders of Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT), Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami were killed in separate gunbattles in Jammu and Kashmir since Friday night, official sources said in Jammu on Saturday.
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Army troops launched a seek and destroy operation in Surankote area of Poonch district on Friday night following intelligence inputs that a jehad council meeting was taking place in Mohra Bachie forest belt in the district. Terrorists fired on the troops, who retaliated, the sources said adding in the exchange of fire four terrorists were killed and two others escaped. In the continued operation, two more terrorists, were killed on Saturday afternoon. Those killed included three top commanders. The terrorists were identified as Huji platoon commander Abu Kamraz, Hizb area commander Hamza Turki and LeT district commander Mustaq Khan, both residents of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). |