The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday conducted searches in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district where two local Lashkar-e-Taiba militants were shot dead in a gunfight with security forces earlier in the day.

According to officials, the central anti-terror agency carried out searches at four locations in the north Kashmir district today to find evidence of terrorist activities in the area.

A senior police official said that NIA sleuths escorted by the Jammu and Kashmir Police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), swooped in at four locations in Old Town Baramulla, in connection with a terrorism-related case in the former state.

The official said the searches were ongoing when last reports came in and further details are awaited.

The searches were going on till last reports came in, they said, adding further details were awaited.

The NIA had on Tuesday raided 12 locations across Jammu and Kashmir in connection with its probe into a terror conspiracy case, officials said.

They said that the NIA sleuths searched 11 locations in Kashmir valley— eight in Pulwama district and one each in Kulgam, Anantnag, and Budgam districts — and one in Jammu’s Poonch district.

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Two LeT militants killed

Earlier, on early Thursday morning, two local terrorists belonging to proscribed Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), were shot dead in a gunfight with security forces in Baramulla district.

According to an official statement by the Jammu and Kashmir Police, two local terrorists, identified as Shakir Majid Najar and Hanan Ahmad Seh—both residents of Shopian district in the volatile south Kashmir region—were killed in a gunfight with security forces in Baramulla district. This is the second encounter in the north Kashmir region in the last 24 hours.

Police said that both Shakir Najar and Hanan Seh had joined the LeT ranks in March this year.

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