JeM terrorist killed by security forces in last week's Kulgam encounter planned to carry out suicide attack like Pulwama

Srinagar: One of the three militants killed in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district last week had plans to carry out a suicide attack similar to the 14 February Pulwama terror strike, according to a purported video of the ultra in which he spoke about such a plot. [caption id=“attachment_6094381” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] The site of the attack in Pulwama. PTI[/caption] The three militants killed in the encounter in Turigam area of Kulgam district on 24 February belonged to the terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and were identified as Raqib Ahmad, a resident of Shiganpora, and Waleed and Numan of Pakistan. A purported video of Ahmad, shot before he was killed, went viral on social media on Saturday. In the clip, he spoke about his plans to carry out a ‘fidayeen’ (suicide) attack on security forces. “I will be in heaven by the time this video reaches you,” Ahmad said in the over six-minute video in which he glorified terror attacks involving suicide bombers. The video is similar to the one that surfaced immediately after the Pulwama attack in which JeM suicide bomber Adil Ahmad Dar claimed responsibility for the terror strike. A police official said they were ascertaining the veracity of the video.