WANTED JeM TERRORIST TANTRAY KILLED

4-feet-tall JeM’s Noor Tantray was behind the attack on BSF camp

Terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed suffered a major blow on Tuesday when security forces killed its top commander Noor Mohammad Tantray, considered the brains behind the terror outfit’s revival in Kashmir Valley, police said.

Two of his accomplices, believed to be foreign terrorists, managed to escape under the cover of darkness when the encounter broke out at Samboora village in Pulwama district in South Kashmir, they said, adding that the two would be tracked down soon.

According to Director General of Police S.P. Vaid, the militants had gathered in the area and were planning to carry out an attack on a convoy of security personnel.

Terming the killing of 47-year-old Tantray as a “significant development”, the police said the terrorist was wanted in various terror incidents earlier this year, including a suicide attack at the BSF camp at Srinagar airport, and had become an irritant for the security forces.

“The divisional commander of JeM, Noor Mohammad Tantray alias Noor Trali, was killed in a gun battle with security forces in Samboora area of Pulwama,” the police said in a statement.

The body of Tantray, who was four-feet two inches tall, was recovered along with one weapon on Tuesday morning from the rubbles of the house where the terrorists were hiding.

A crack team of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, acting on a specific input, had cordoned off a cluster of houses at Samboora which resulted in a fierce gunbattle leading to the elimination of the top JeM commander.