Top Jaish bombmaker killed, hunt for 2 missing car bombs in Kashmir is on
Security forces have been looking for two more car bombs that had been fabricated by Jaish’s bomb expert from Pakistan’s Multan Fauji Bhai
Editorial Staff
Top Jaish bombmaker killed, hunt for 2 missing car bombs in Kashmir is on
Fauji Bhai alias Abdul Rehman, a top bomb-maker Jaish-e-Mohammed, was among the three terrorists killed in an encounter with security forces in Kashmir’s Pulwama on Wednesday morning.
The operation was conducted by a joint team of security personnel that had been tracking Fauji Bhai, also known as Ismail, who has also been linked to the car bomb intercepted in Pulwama district’s Rajpora area on May 27.
Inputs available with security forces, however, indicate that there are two more similar car bombs, or vehicle improvised explosive devices (V-IEDs), in Kashmir, that Fauji Bhai, a Pakistani national, had built.
“Our information was that Fauji Bhai, also known as Ismail, had fabricated three vehicle IEDs. We seized one of the three on May 27 but there are two more out there, possibly somewhere in Budgam and Kulgam areas,” a top counter-terror official told Hindustan Times.
There had been a barrage of intelligence inputs over the last two months about plans by Jaish terrorists to carr…
