Guwahati: A terrorist Imran Bashir from the banned group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), was shot and killed during a raid on a terrorist hideout in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian one day after he had been arrested for throwing a grenade that killed two labourers.
Kashmir Zone Police on their twitter handle said, “Based on disclosure of arrested hybrid terrorist & in continuous raids by Police & security forces, another contact has been established between terrorists and SFs at Nowgam, Shopian, in which hybrid terrorist namely Imran Bashir Ganaie killed by firing of another terrorist.”
“Incriminating materials, arms & ammunition has been recovered from the hideout/site of contact. Search still going on,” it further said.
Notably, Bashir was arrested by the state police on Tuesday after he threw a grenade into Herman, killing two labourers.
The two workers identified as Monish Kumar and Ram Sagar, were from Uttar Pradesh and suffered several injures before being taken to the hospital, where they passed away.