SRINAGAR: Security agencies have gathered evidence, including documents issued by the government of Pakistan and biometric data, confirming that the three slain foreign terrorists involved in the deadly Pahalgam attack were Pakistani nationals, officials said on Monday.

The terrorists, identified as senior Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Dachigam forest on the outskirts of Srinagar on July 28 during an operation code-named ‘Mahadev’. They had been hiding in the Dachigam-Harwan forest belt since the April 22 attack in Pahalgam’s Baisaran meadow, which claimed 26 lives.

The evidence collected shows that no local was among these terrorists, the officials said.