Srinagar: Security forces have arrested three armed hybrid terrorists from Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar.

The security personnel nabbed the terrorist during a Naka check at Shalteng in Srinagar

The security personnel nabbed the terrorist during a Naka check at Shalteng in Srinagar and recovered arms and ammunition from their vehicle.

The arrests were made at a time when an encounter was going on between security forces and terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district since morning in which a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) hybrid terrorist was killed.

A gunfight started in the Cheki Dudoo area of Bijbehara in the Anantnag district, police said. Several teams of police and army officers have been on the job, the police added.

When the search party reached the suspected hideout, terrorists opened fire, leaving one LeT hybrid terrorist, Sajjad Tantray of Kulgam injured, police said.

Tantray was with the search party for identification of the hideout. He was rushed to hospital where doctors declared him brought dead, police said.