The Jammu and Kashmir Police have foiled a “major infiltration attempt” by a terrorist along the Line of Control in the Tangdhar Sector of the Union Territory’s Kupwara on the intervening nights of Tuesday and Wednesday.
The officials of the Indian Army said that they have eliminated this terrorist on the basis of intelligence input, which confirmed by other intelligence agencies regarding the infiltration of a group of LeT terrorists through Forward Sudpura in Karnah Tehsil of Kupwara District.
“Based on the intelligence inputs about a likely attempt to infiltrate/smuggle war-like stores/narcotics in Tangdhar, an Army unit has intensified anti-infiltration efforts. At midnight, movements of suspected infiltrators were detected who fired at troops,” the Indian Army officials said in an official statement.
The Army officials suspected the eliminated terrorist of belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror outfit. The security officials also recovered one AK series rifle and a pistol from the possession of terrorsists.
“As per agencies, the eliminated terrorist has been identified as Mohammed Shakur, s/o Yakub, aged 32 years, belonging to Syedpura in PoJK,” the Army’s statement read.
