SRINAGAR: One terrorist was killed and another injured after members of Islamic State’s J&K chapter and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) clashed among themselves at two places following an altercation over an AK47 rifle in Anantnag on Wednesday.

The body of IS terrorist Adil Rehman Dar was found in Sirhama village of Bijbehara on Thursday while an injured colleague of his, Arif Bhat, was arrested from a village in Anantnag, police said.

Adil had joined LeT last year and he recently switched his allegiance to IS. The LeT terrorists claimed the AK47 rifle that he was using belonged to their group, police sources said.

An officer said in a bid to establish supremacy, there have been clashes among several terrors groups, notably between LeT and IS, in south Kashmir for some time now.The J&K chapter of IS was established by Mugais Mir and Dawood Salafi in 2017. Both of them were killed in encounters.

