Vijay Kumar Inspector General of Police Kashmir informed that top Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror outfir terrorist Mohammad Ismail Alvi alias Lamboo killed in an encounter with security forces in a forest area in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district this morning was involved in “conspiracy and planning” of suicide bomb attack on a CRPF convoy at Lethpora area of the district of February 2019 in which 40 troopers were killed.

Two terrorists including Lamboo were killed in an encounter with a joint team of army and police in Dachigam forest area in Pulwama on Saturday.

In a statement after the encounter, IGP Kumar said that Alvi alias Lamboo alias Adnan was “from family of Masood Azhar”, the top militant commander based in Pakistan.