LeT terrorist Junaid Ahmed Bhat was seen on CCTV during the attack on Ganderbal
New Delhi:
A terrorist who was involved in the killing of six workers and a doctor at a housing camp of a private company in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal was shot dead by the security forces in an encounter.
The terrorist, Junaid Ahmed Bhat, was from the Pakistan-origin Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group, sources said.
He was also involved in terror attacks in Gagangir and other locations, sources said.
The cordon and search operation (CASO) that led to the encounter was carried out by the Jammu and Kashmir Police.
“A Lashkar terrorist identified as Junaid Ahmed Bhat, who was listed as ‘A; category terrorist, was eliminated. He was involved in killing civilians at Gagangir, Ganderbal and several other areas,” a senior police officer told NDTV.
The officer said Bhat was a resident of Kulgam. He had gone missing a year ago, and surfaced on CCTV carrying an AK series assault rifle during the Ganderbal attack.
Security has been tightened in Dachhigam forest area after the CASO began. Dachhigam is a national park on the outskirts of Srinagar.
