Three Hizbul terrorists killed in encounter at Turkwangam area of Sophian

During Searching operation at Turkwangam of Sophian (ANI)

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Srinagar : Indian security force on Tuesday morning killed three terrorists at Turkwangam area of Sophian district , Jammu & Kashmir . Top commander of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Zubair ul Islam Wani along with Kamran Manhas and Muneeb ul Haq were killed in Turkwangam encounter. Kamran Manhas from Zawoora was a relative of politician.

According to source, a joint operation by Indian Army , the CRPF and the J&K Police by launched in Turkwangam area of Sophian after the security forces received information that some terrorists are hiding in the region.

Three terrorists were killed in the encounter. We will ask people, who are claiming to be their parents, to come and identify the bodies. It was a clean operation, there was no collateral damage: IG Police Kashmir, Vijay Kumar on encounter in Shopian. #JammuAndKashmir pic.twitter.com/xNPSCjRpYx

— ANI (@ANI) June 16, 2020

IG Vijay Kumar of J&K police said “Three terrorists were killed in the encounter. We will ask people , who are claiming to be their parents to come the identity the bodies. It was a clean operation, there was no collateral damage”

The security forces also recovered an INSAS rifle and two AK-47 rifles were recovered from the encounter site, which is around 500 metres away from Indian Army’s Rashtriya Rifle camp.

According to our source, The three terrorists are identified as Zubair ul Islam Wani from Turkwangam of Sophian . He was a area commander of Pakistan sponsored Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorist group. Another two terrorists are Kamran Manhas from Zawoora ,a relative of politician and Munneb ul Islam from Sugan, son of a Imam.

Hizbul Mujahideen was involved. Name of a terrorist Umar, who was killed recently, is coming up. Eyewitness has confirmed. The report of ballistic forensic lab is yet to come: IG Police Kashmir on Congress Sarpanch Ajay Pandita who was killed by terrorists in Anantnag on June 8 pic.twitter.com/Jm7bbbfh3x

— ANI (@ANI) June 16, 2020