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Encounter in J&K: Foreign terrorists killed as forces launch Operation Mahadev
(File) Indian Army personnel during a counterterror operation following a terrorist attack on an army convoy, in Kathua district, on July 9, 2024. PTI File
At least three terrorists have been killed in an ongoing operation of the Indian Army in the Lidwas area of Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar, sources have told CNN-News 18.
The Indian Army on Monday afternoon said in a brief statement that it had engaged terrorists in a gunfight the Lidwas area. The Army dubbed it 'Operation Mahadev'.
The CNN-News 18 reported top intelligence sources as confirming that all three terrorists killed were foreign nationals affiliated with the Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
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Sources added that their killing was the result of a month-long intelligence-based operation and clarified that it had no connection to the Pahalgam attack in April in which terrorists from LeT's offshoot The Resistance Front (TRF) killed 26 people.
This is a developing story. It will be updated as details emerge.
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