Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, G Kishan Reddy, said that security forces have so far neutralised more than a hundred terrorists in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the region will soon be 'terror-free'. He was responding on Wednesday's deadly terror attack in Sopore where a three-year-old child was rescued by a J&K policeman while risking his life during ongoing firing by the terrorists.

The 3-year-old child was travelling with his grandfather to buy some milk when the terrorist attack a joint Naka party of Jammu and Kashmir police and 179 battalion of CRPF deployed in the Model Town area of Sopore in Baramulla district of North Kashmir. In this attack, Bashir Ahmed Khan of Sopore lost his life while a policeman rescued his grandson. A CRPF jawan was also killed in the incident.

The Minister was on a visit to Rapid Antigen Detection Testing Centers in the national capital.