3 terrorists killed in gunfight in J&K’s Shopian: Police

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Srinagar: Two terrorists were killed in an overnight encounter by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian town, the police said on Sunday morning. This took the number of terrorists killed in the encounter to three. One terrorist was gunned down on Saturday night.

“Police & security forces made sincere efforts to take the surrender of newly recruited terrorists. Parents also made appeals but other terrorists didn’t allow him to #surrender,” the police said in a tweet on Sunday morning.

The identity and group affiliation of the terrorists killed in the gunfight are yet to be ascertained.

Earlier this week, as many as seven terrorists, including terror outfit Ansar Ghazwatul Hind chief Imtiaz Ahmad Shah, were killed in two encounters in the union territory’s Shopian and Pulwama districts, police said on Friday.

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