JAMMU: Indian security forces have killed a senior Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) terrorist militant in a gunfight in the Indian-held Kashmir, police said on Tuesday. The dead terrorist man was described as a deputy commander of LeT, a militant group blamed by India for the 2008 siege in Mumbai in which 166 people were killed. Police said the terrorist man, known as Amir Khan, was shot on Monday night. Security forces on Tuesday launched an operation to find two other terrorists militants who fled ran away escaped from the scene in Poonch district, close to the Line of Control with Azad Kashmir. |