Published On:Thursday, 30 October 2014
Three top militants killed
Kupwara encounter ends
Srinagar: In a long and fierce encounter that last for more than 30 hours, two more militants were gunned won by the security forces on Tuesday in border district of Kupwara in north Kashmir.
With this long encounter coming to an end, a total of three militants have been killed and also a junior commission officer (JCO) had lost his life.
On Monday when the encounter started when a search party comprising the Rashtriya rifles and the police was fired upon by a group of militants while the joint team of the security forces were visibly zeroing in at their hideout.
“In its reply to this volley of gunfire by the militants, the security forces killed a militant from across the border and also a JCO received gunshot injuries in the process. The JCO was rushed to a military hospital where he succumbed to his injuries,” said an official.
In this ongoing encounter that continued on Wednesday, “We managed to kill two more militants who had refused to surrender and were relentlessly firing at the security forces,’ added the police official.
The police official further said, “although the firing has stopped but the search operation is still on to ascertain whether there were some more of the group that was involved in the encounter.”
He said that besides that efforts were also on to ascertain the identity of the slain militants whose bodies were recovered from the Wadder Bala forest of the state.
Srinagar: In a long and fierce encounter that last for more than 30 hours, two more militants were gunned won by the security forces on Tuesday in border district of Kupwara in north Kashmir.
With this long encounter coming to an end, a total of three militants have been killed and also a junior commission officer (JCO) had lost his life.
On Monday when the encounter started when a search party comprising the Rashtriya rifles and the police was fired upon by a group of militants while the joint team of the security forces were visibly zeroing in at their hideout.
“In its reply to this volley of gunfire by the militants, the security forces killed a militant from across the border and also a JCO received gunshot injuries in the process. The JCO was rushed to a military hospital where he succumbed to his injuries,” said an official.
In this ongoing encounter that continued on Wednesday, “We managed to kill two more militants who had refused to surrender and were relentlessly firing at the security forces,’ added the police official.
The police official further said, “although the firing has stopped but the search operation is still on to ascertain whether there were some more of the group that was involved in the encounter.”
He said that besides that efforts were also on to ascertain the identity of the slain militants whose bodies were recovered from the Wadder Bala forest of the state.
