Top Lashkar-e-Taiba commander killed by armed forces in J&K
Indian security forces on Wednesday killed top Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Abu Bakr in a 6-hour-long encounter in J&K's Sopore, reports said. Bakr was reportedly holed up in a residential building in a village near Sopore and was firing at army personnel from there. The forces blasted the building where Bakr was hiding, and recovered arms and ammunitions from the encounter site.
The 6-hour-long encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore has come to an end after security forces killed a top Lashkar-e-Taiba commander.LeT commander Abu Bakr was holed up in a residential house in Bomai. The security forces blasted the building where he was hiding and firing from.TIP-OFF RECEIVEDSecurity forces had cordoned off Bomai village near Sopore after a tip-off about the presence of a Lashkar militant in a residential house in the town.Sopore encounter #UPDATE: top LeT commander Abu Bakr killed by security forces. Encounter endsAs forces approached the house in question, they were fired upon by the militant. Abu Bakr was killed in retaliatory firing by security forces, bringing the encounter to an end.