Masood Azhar’s nephew among 2 JeM militants killed in Tral gunfight, sniper rifle recovered

Tral : Two Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militants were on Tuesday killed during a gunfight with the government forces and an M-4 carbine was recovered, which was possibly used for carrying out sniper attacks on government forces, officials said. “Two bodies were recovered after a day-long encounter that broke in Chaanketaar village of Tral in Pulwama district,” they said.
“The body of one more militant was expected to be retrieved from the rubble,” they said. According to officials, the intelligence inputs as well as the material seized from the encounter site showed that the militants belonged to JeM.
While the identity of the slain militants was not ascertained immediately, reports said that one of those killed was the nephew of Maulana Masood Azhar, the chief of Jaish-e-Mohammed. “The government forces have also recovered M-4 Carbine rifle from the encounter site which was possibly used by the group to carry out sniper attacks on security forces,” they said.