Srinagar, Dec 03: Jammu and Kashmir police on Tuesday said that the terrorist killed in the ongoing encounter in the upper reaches of Dachigam Srinagar was involved in a terror attack in Ganderbal’s Gagangir in which seven civilian were killed.
In a post on X, Kashmir zone police informed that the slain terrorist has been identified as Junaid Ahmad Bhat in an ongoing encounter.
They said that Bhat was an A category terrorist of Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit and was involved in the killing of civilians in Ganderbal’s Gagangir and other terror attacks.
A doctor and six construction workers were killed in a terror attack on a construction site in Gagangir area on October 20 this year.
The operation is going on, and is being carried out jointly with Rashtriya Rifles and security forces, they said.
