New Delhi: A teenager from Srinagar was among the three terrorists who were killed in the Pulwama encounter on Sunday, the police said Sunday. Natish Wani alias Haider was a resident of Khanyar, Srinagar and had joined the terrorist group just a week ago. Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday said that three terrorists including a deputy commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and a Pakistani terrorist were killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.
These terrorists have been identified as Deputy of LeT's top commander Basit Arif Ahmad Hazar alias Rehan, Pakistani terrorist Abu Huzaifa alias Haqqani and Natish Wani alias Haider resident of Khanyar, Srinagar.
"Teenager from Khanyar, Srinagar who joined terror ranks a week ago killed in an encounter in Pulwama, along with two other terrorists. Active terrorists exploit gullible youths for their own ulterior motives. Such madness by youths leads to the destruction of families and nothing else," said Srinagar Police according to ANI.
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The police were notified of the basic inputs of the presence of the terrorists in the Pahoo area of Pulwama, the area was cordoned off and a search operation was launched by the Police and the Army (50RR).
According to the report, the Police said that the search operation quickly turned into an encounter after the terrorists began to fire indiscriminately and the police fired back. The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) also joined the operation.
"In the ensuing encounter, three terrorists linked with proscribed terror outfit LeT were killed and their bodies were retrieved from the site of encounter," said police.
As per police records, all the killed terrorists were part of groups involved in several terror crime cases including attacks on Police, Security Forces, and civilian atrocities.