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Two terrorists belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were killed on Friday in a shootout with security forces in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
A joint police and army patrol launched a search of forest belts from Thanamandi to Rajouri following reports of the presence of terrorists in the area, a police spokesperson said.
While the searches continued, terrorists hiding in the forest fired at the security forces.
In the meeting that followed, two unidentified members of the banned terrorist group LeT were killed, the spokesperson said.
Two AK-47 rifles with seven magazines, four grenades, pouches and medicine packs were seized from the possession of the killed terrorists, he added.
A Jammu-based defense spokesperson said the joint cordon-and-search operation by the Indian military and police was launched in the remote village of Pangai, located in a wooded area of ​​Thanamandi. He said the terrorists had been successfully neutralized by the security forces.
The operation was in progress at the time of the filing of this report to ensure that the area is properly sanitized.
Giving details of the meeting earlier, Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Jammu Area, Mukesh Singh, said security forces were tracking down a group of terrorists in the forest belts of Rajouri through a digital intervention for a month.
“We received information from Thanamandi and contact was established with the terrorists, which resulted in an encounter in the forest belt,” he said.
Three to four terrorists, including two foreign nationals, were hiding in the Thanamandi forest area, he said, adding: “We believe they have moved from Kashmir to this side.” who oversees the operation, confirmed that there was contact followed by an exchange of fire.
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