LeT terrorist involved in Gagangir attack killed

Srinagar: A Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist, allegedly involved in an attack near a tunnel construction site in Jammu and Kashmir’s Gagangir in Oct this year, was killed in an encounter with security forces in the Dachigam forest area here on Tuesday, officials said.Acting on specific intelligence inputs, security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in the upper reaches of Dachigam on Monday night, the officials said. The search operation turned into a gunfight after terrorists fired at a search party of the security forces who retaliated. In the exchange of fire on Tuesday morning, a terrorist identified as Junaid Ahmed Bhat, was killed. Bhat, a category ‘A’ terrorist of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, was wanted for his alleged involvement in the Oct 20 attack near a tunnel construction site in the Gagangir area of Ganderbal in which a local doctor and six non-local labourers were killed, they added. “OP Dachigam: In the ongoing operation, one terrorist is killed and has been identified as Junaid Ahmed Bhat (LeT, Category A),” the Kashmir Zone Police said in a post on X.PTIWe also published the following articles recently