Srinagar: Contesting the claim of Border Security Force (BSF) that its chief commander operations Gazi Baba was killed in an encounter in Srinagar on August 30, Pakistan based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit said three of its activists died in the gun-fight that broke out with the security forces in Noorbagh area.

JeM area commander Saiful Islam, Abu Zaid and Abu Kasha attained "martyrdom" in the encounter at Noorbagh while four other activists of the outfit managed to escape from the besieged area, its spokesman Abu Muslim told a local news agency, CNS.

PTI