Poonch, 30 July (H.S.): Two terrorists were gunned down in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch this morning, days after security forces shot dead the terrorists involved in the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack. The terrorists, it is learnt, were affiliated with the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror outfit.

Earlier this morning, the Army’s White Knight Corps said in a post on X that it had observed the suspicious movement of two persons in the Poonch sector. “Suspected movement of two individuals was observed by own troops along the fence in gen area of #Poonch Sector. Gunfire exchanged. Operation under progress,” it said.

Jammu and Kashmir’s Director General of Police Nalin Prabhat later confirmed that two terrorists who had infiltrated into India were shot dead during the gunfight with security forces.

The encounter in Poonch comes two days after three terrorists involved in the Pahalgam attack, which left 26 innocents dead, were killed in an encounter near Srinagar.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Krishan Kumar