Two terrorists killed in encounter in J-K's Awantipora

The deceased have been identified as Shahid Rather from the Tral area and Umar Yousuf from Shopian, the police informed on Tuesday morning.

Awantipora (Jammu and Kashmir): Two terrorists were killed in an encounter between security forces and terrorists in the Rajpora area of Jammu and Kashmir's Awantipora on Monday evening. The deceased have been identified as Shahid Rather from the Tral area and Umar Yousuf from Shopian, the police informed on Tuesday morning. The officials also informed that some incriminating material including two AK47 rifles were confiscated from the killed terrorists.

"Killed terrorists identified as Shahid Rather of #Tral & Umar Yousuf of Shopian. Besides other terror crimes, terrorist Shahid was involved in the killing of a woman Mst Shakeela of Aripal & a govt employee/ peon Javid Ahmed of Lurgam Tral," the IGP Kashmir tweeted.

Earlier in the day, two Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) terrorists were neutralized in an anti-terrorist operation in Pulwama including the killer of police personnel Reyaz Ahmad. According to Jammu and Kashmir Police, the encounter took place in the Gundipora area of the Pulwama district on Sunday evening in which two local terrorists of the proscribed terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) were killed.