LeT militant killed in Indian Kashmir: Police

Militant was described as deputy commander of LeT.

JAMMU, INDIA: Indian security forces have killed a senior Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant in a gunfight in the disputed region of Kashmir, police said on Tuesday.

The militant 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 man, known as Amir Khan, was shot on Monday night.

Security forces on Tuesday launched an operation to find two other militants who escaped from the scene in Poonch district, close to the de facto frontier with Azad Kashmir.