A Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant involved in the abduction and murder of Kashmiri army officer Ummer Fayaz in May this year was killed by security forces on Saturday in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district, officials said.

He said that on recieving specific input about the presence of some LeT terrorists in Kulgam, a joint team of 62 Rashtriya Rifles and SOG of the state police along with the CRPF laid a cordon to trap the terrorists. The security forces retaliated, killing Padder. "The newly commissioned Lieutenant Umar Fayaz was abducted and killed by LeT terrorists in May, when he was attending a wedding of relative in Shopian", sources in the Army said. Padder was also accused by police in some bank robberies in south Kashmir and an attack on a police station in Yaripora.

The bus carrying personnel of the Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police came under fire from the militants in the evening.