Baramullah encounter: A joint operation of Military and J&Ok police was launched primarily based on inputs, an official mentioned. (Representational picture)
In Rajouri, Military’s Northern Command mentioned that its personnel have been conducting “relentless intelligence-based operations to flush out a bunch of terrorists concerned in an ambush on an Military truck within the Tota Gali space
A terrorist has been killed in Jammu and Kashmir as two separate encounters are underway in Baramulla and Rajouri districts on the intervening night time of Friday and Saturday.
Kashmir police mentioned that two-three terrorists have been trapped because the encounter continues between safety drive and terrorists in Kunzar space of Baramulla. A joint operation of Military and J&Ok police was launched primarily based on inputs, an official mentioned.
In Rajouri, Military’s Northern Command mentioned that its personnel have been conducting “relentless intelligence-based operations to flush out a bunch of terrorists concerned in an ambush on an Military truck within the Tota Gali space of Bhata Dhurian in Jammu area final month”.
“Within the ongoing operation in Kandi Forest in Rajouri sector, contact was established with terrorists at 0115 hours at the moment (Saturday) and firing was began,” PRO Defence Lt Col Devender Anand mentioned.
5 Military personnel had been killed and a serious was injured on Friday in an explosion triggered by terrorists within the densely forested Kandi space in Rajouri district the place an operation was underway to flush out terrorists, officers mentioned.
“On particular details about the presence of terrorists within the Kandi Forest within the Rajouri Sector, a joint operation was launched on Could 3. Round 7.30 am on Friday, a search crew established contact with a bunch of terrorists effectively entrenched in a cave,” they mentioned.
The world is thickly vegetated with rocky and steep cliffs.
Officers mentioned further troops of the Central Reserve Police Drive (CRPF) and the Military had been inducted into the realm to place it in a good cordon in order that terrorists don’t escape from the spot.
The forces deployed drones and sniffer canines and troops hit a cave hideout with heavy fireplace of mortars and grenades, they mentioned. “The terrorists triggered an explosive system in retaliation,” it mentioned.
On Friday morning, two troopers belonging to the particular forces had been killed and 4, together with the most important, had been injured through the operation. Later within the day, three died in a hospital in Udhampur.
The slain troopers had been lance naik Ruchin Singh Rawat from Gairsain in Uttarakhand, paratrooper Siddhant Chettri from Darjeeling in West Bengal, naik Arvind Kumar from Kangra district in Himachal Pradesh, Havildar Neelam Singh from Jammu and paratrooper Pramod Negi from Sirmaur in Himachal Pradesh.
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