SRINAGAR: Two soldiers and a new recruit of Lashkar-e-Taiba were killed in an overnight gunfight that erupted after a security team surrounded a house in Chermarg village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district and the armed terrorist holed up inside fired his AK-47, police said on Saturday.
Kashmir zone IGP Vijay Kumar said terrorist Abdul Qayoom Dar of Larow Kakapora in Pulwama, about 30km south of Srinagar, was shot dead in retaliatory fire by the combined team of Army and J&K police during the nightly operation on February 18 and 19.
