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Zakir Musa’s successor and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind commander killed in Awantipora encounter


Mangalore Today News Network

Srinagar, Oct 23, 2019: In a major breakthrough, the security forces have gunned down slain terrorist Zakir Musa’s successor and chief of Kashmir’s al-Qaeda unit Hamid Lelhari. Hamid Lelhari is one of the three terrorists killed by the security forces in an encounter, which began in Awantipora district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday evening.Hameed Lelhari, 30, was a native of Pulwama, Zee reported.

 

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The development assumes significance as al Qaeda affiliated Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGH) had named Lelhari as its new commander after Zakir Musa’s death in May 2019.

Jammu Kashmir Police on Wednesday announced that the three terrorists neutralised in the encounter with the security forces in Awantipora have been identified.

The three terrorists have been identified as - Naveed Tak, Hamid Lone aka Hamid Lelhari and Junaid Bhat -it said.

According to the Kashmir Zone Police, a huge cache of arms and ammunition have been recovered from the site.

Zakir Musa was al-Qaeda’s head in Kashmir since July 27, 2017. He was earlier heading Hizbul Mujahideen, after the killing of Burhan Wani in 2016.

Musa was declared a proclaimed offender by a special court of the National Investigation Agency in Punjab’s Mohali earlier this month in connection with serial blasts in Jalandhar in September last year.

Security forces, however, killed AGH chief Zakir Musa in an encounter in a village in South Kashmir’s Tral on May 23.

Police had termed Zakir Musa’s killing as a major success for security forces as he was wanted in a series of terror crimes over the past six years.

The encounter in Awantipora began in the outskirts of Awantipore on Tuesday evening as the security forces launched a cordon and search operation following inputs about the presence of terrorists.


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