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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A joint team of Indian Army and the Jammu and Kashmir Police gunned down two terrorists in the Union Territory’s Kupwara district as they foiled a cross-border infiltration bid along the Line of Control (LoC) on Wednesday.

In an official statement, Srinagar-based defence spokesman, Col. Emron Musavi, said that two terrorists were shot dead in a joint operation by the Indian Army and the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday following specific intelligence from SSP Kupwara warning of likely infiltration from one of the terrorist launch pads across the LoC towards Machil sector.

The defence spokesman said that following the intel received from SSP Kupwara, the troops were put on high alert and a well coordinated counter infiltration grid was put in place in the north Kashmir district’s rugged and extreme terrain on Monday, adding that several additional ambushes of the Indian Army and J&K Police’s SOG were placed along the likely routes of infiltration.

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Col. Musavi said the security forces endured two continous nights of harsh weather marked by incessant rainfall, poor visibility and freezing night temperatures and eventually spotted the terrorists trying to infiltrate into Indian territory on early Wednesday morning.

He said the terrorists opened fire on the troops which was returned and a gunfight ensued in which two terrorists were shot dead, adding that the bodies of the two ultras have been recovered along with arms, ammunition and explosive devices.

The defence spokesman said that following the gunfight, an extensive search operation was launched by the security forces and the area is being combed for the presence of more infiltrators, adding that the identity and affiliation of the two slain terrorists is being ascertained.

Colonel Musavi said the successful intelligence-based operation highights the close synergy and coordination between different security agencies, especially the Indian Army and the Jammu and Kashmir Police, in their steadfast stand to rid the conflict-riddled valley from the scourge of terrorism and insurgency.

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