JeM militant killed in Anantnag encounter identified as last surviving Lethpora attacker;IGP Kashmir
Srinagar,CNS,01-Jan;The Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militant killed in an encounter in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on December 31 last year has been identified as Samir Dar, who was also involved in the 2019 Pulwama terror attack of February 14, 2019 in which 40 CRPF troopers were killed., said Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir Vijay Kumar on Saturday.
“The picture of one of the killed #Millitants in #AnantnagEncounter on Dec-30th matches with JeM top commander Samir Dar, who was the last surviving militant involved in Lethpora #Pulwama #militant Attack. We are going for DNA sample matching,” IGP Kashmir said in a tweet.
Police had said that a soldier and three JeM militants identified as Sultan alias Rayees alias Mavia (a foreign militant), Nisar Ahmad Khanday, a resident of Dudwangan Kapran, and Altaf Ahmad Shah, a resident of Nathipora Dooru were killed and their bodies retrieved from the site of the encounter that took place at Nowgam Dooru area of the South Kashmir district on Thursday.
The IGP had said that Shah and Sultan along with another militant Suhail Rather were involved in an attack at Zewan Srinagar in which three policemen were killed and 11 others injured.
Rather was killed in a separate encounter at Pantha Chowk on Saturday.(CNS)
