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2 top Lashkar militants shot dead

Security forces achieved a major success on Wednesday when they gunned down two top commanders of the Pakistan-based extremist outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, including its supreme commander in the Kashmir valley, a defence spokesman said on Thursday.

LeT commander Omar Abdullah Makki and his associate, Abu Hans alias Abu Hyder, both Pakistanis, were killed in a fierce encounter at Village Gopalpora in Badgam district on Wednesday night.

The spokesman said troops of the 2 Battalion of the Rashtriya Rifles of the Kilo Force and the Special Operations Group of the state police, acting on a tip-off, cordoned off a few suspect houses in the village on Wednesday evening.

Even as the cordon was being laid, the men hiding inside one of the houses opened up with AK-47 assault rifles and lobbed grenades.

In the encounter that ensued, Makki and Hans, divisional commanders of the Lashkar for Srinagar and Badgam districts, respectively, were killed.

"This is a major success for the security forces as it has led to a total void in the hierarchy of the LeT and is a big blow to their operations in the valley," the spokesman said.

Five security personnel were injured and the house where the terrorists were hiding was destroyed. The SOG took the owner of the house and his daughter into custody.

Elsewhere in the valley, an unidentified militant and a civilian were killed while a woman was injured in separate shootouts.

Security forces also unearthed an arms dump, seizing a huge cache of arms and ammunition, on Wednesday night.

PTI

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